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Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures: Episode 2: Feathered Dinosaurs

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In China, Richard Fortey visits a fossil site known as the 'Dinosaur Pompeii'.

Professor Richard Fortey visits China to see a fossil site that has yielded remains of feathered dinosaurs and rewritten the story of the origin of birds.

Professor Richard Fortey travels to north eastern China to see a fossil site known as the 'Dinosaur Pompeii' - a place that has yielded spectacular remains of feathered dinosaurs and rewritten the story of the origins of birds. Among the amazing finds he investigates are the feathered cousin of T-rex, a feathered dinosaur with strong parallels to living pandas, and some of the most remarkable flying animals that have ever lived.

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

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