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Your bite-size guide to this week in science. Join hosts Eleanor Higgs and Rachael Funnell as they discuss the biggest news stories of the week with guests from the IFLScience team and maybe even a surprise expert or two. So, let’s Break It Down…
Your bite-size guide to this week in science. Join hosts Eleanor Higgs and Rachael Funnell as they discuss the biggest news stories of the week with guests from the IFLScience team and maybe even a surprise expert or two. So, let’s Break It Down…
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Friday Oct 10, 2025
A Two-Headed Fossil, 50/50 Spider, And World-First Butt Drag
Friday Oct 10, 2025
Friday Oct 10, 2025
This week on Break It Down: 3I/ATLAS is a 10 billion-year-old time capsule, a world-first fossil captures the moment a rock hyrax dragged its butt 126,000 years ago, a living person received a pig liver transplant for the first time, the “oldest human habit” might not be what it seems, a rare gynandromorph spider is a 50/50 wonder, and what is this prehistoric creature with two heads? We asked a dinosaur expert.
So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…
Links:
3I/ATLAS
Butt drag fossil
Trackways of fish leaving the ocean
Pig liver transplant
Oldest human habit
50/50 spider
Two-headed fossil
Sword Dragon of Dorset
CURIOUS magazine
What lives in Loch Ness?
The Big Questions
What’s all the fossa-bout?

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