Curiosity Daily Podcast: This Dino Was Fossilized Incubating Its Eggs

Learn about how kids as young as 8 show a gender gap when it comes to negotiating; how speaking another language can change your personality; and what paleontologists can learn from a momentous new discovery of fossilized dinosaur embryos.

May 05, 2021

Episode Show Notes:

Kids as young as 8 show a gender gap when it comes to negotiating by Kelsey Donk

How Speaking Another Language Can Change Your Personality by Ashley Hamer

Scientists just found a fossilized dino incubating its eggs by Grant Currin

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