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Secrets of Bones

Episode 1: Size Matters

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

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Evolutionary biologist and master skeleton builder Ben Garrod begins a six-part journey to discover how bones have enabled vertebrates to colonise and dominate practically every habitat on Earth.

Ben shows us what bone is constructed from and how it can support animals that are both minuscule - a frog just a few millimetres long - and massive - the blue whale, two hundred million times bigger. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Ben Garrod
Series Producer:
Aaron Paul
Executive Producer:
Jonny Keeling

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