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Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures

  • 2014
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • ~1h / ep
  • 1 season

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

Latest: Season 1 · 2014

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  1. E1. Weird Wonders

    Mar 11, 2014 · 60m

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

  2. E2. Feathered Dinosaurs

    Mar 18, 2014 · 60m

    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.

  3. E3. The Mammal Hothouse

    Mar 25, 2014 · 60m

    Professor Richard Fortey investigates the remains of an ancient volcanic lake in Germany where fossils of early mammals and giant insects have been found.