Dino Quest

by Fun Kids

Dinosaurs were awesome. But no dinosaur ever got everything right. Each episode, Lauren and Cassius pick one dinosaur speciality and dig into it. The fastest legs. The longest neck. The sharpest teeth. They talk to the scientists who actually study this stuff – from the woman who found a dinosaur underneath a car park to the palaeontologist who builds them inside computers – and they make a choice: one real feature, from one real fossil, to add to the perfect dinosaur they're building across the series. By the end, they'll have built a dinosaur that never existed, made entirely out of bits that did. Dino Quest is from Fun Kids, the UK's children's radio station.

Latest episodes

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Life in a super greenhouse with Kirsty Edgar

The dinosaurs had around 160 million years on Earth, so there was never just one dinosaur climate. There were deserts, volcanoes and jungles, and there were forests at th

Sep 28
31 min

What the thagomizer?! with ReBecca Hunt-Foster

If something wants to eat you, you have three options: get so big that knocking you over is not worth the trouble, get fast enough to leave, or make yourself so expensive

Sep 21
32 min

Dinosaurs never needed a dentist with Emma Nicholls

Nigersaurus grew around 500 teeth and replaced the whole lot roughly every two weeks. It never brushed them, never had to be careful with them and never once saw a dentis

Sep 14
38 min

Dinosaurs with necks full of air with Mike Taylor

The longest neck any animal has ever grown belonged to Mamenchisaurus, and the neck on its own was more than 15 metres, longer than a school bus before you even get to th

Sep 7
32 min

The dinosaurs that ran faster than Usain Bolt with John Hutchinson

Dinosaurs ruled for 160 million years, and the thing that made them a runaway success was where their legs went. Not out to the side like a crocodile, but straight down u

Aug 31
29 min

This is Dino Quest

Legs that could outrun the fastest human alive. A neck longer than a double-decker bus. A tail people were once sure could crack like a whip. Every week Lauren and Cassiu

Aug 24
1 min