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Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures

Richard Fortey

Shaun Trevisick

Bill Locke

Peter Lovering

Sebastian Duthy

Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures: Episode 1: Weird Wonders

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In the Rockies, Richard Fortey explores a fossilised seabed containing bizarre life forms.

In the Rockies, Richard Fortey explores a fossilised seabed containing bizarre life forms that have revolutionised understanding about the beginnings of complex life.

Professor Richard Fortey journeys high in the Rocky Mountains to explore a 520 million-year-old fossilised seabed containing bizarre and experimental life forms that have revolutionised our understanding about the beginnings of complex life. Among the amazing finds he uncovers are marine creatures with five eyes and a proboscis, filter-feeders shaped like tulips, worm-like scavengers covered in spikes but with no identifiable head or anus, and a metre-long predator resembling a giant shrimp.

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Professor Richard Fortey explores the distant past, locked in stone.

Professor Richard Fortey travels to some of the greatest fossil sites on earth to discover more about the distant past.

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