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1 online resource (50 minutes) |
| Summary |
In this revelatory series, Professor Richard Fortey, Britain's foremost chronicler of ancient worlds, tells the extraordinary history of palaeontology through three of the world's greatest fossil sites. These fossil 'time capsules' contain entire eco-systems of now-vanished worlds. Only a handful of them exist in the world, but each one of them has overturned generations of paleontological thinking and reconfigured our understanding of the past. These 'super-sites' are uniquely special not just because of the scale of the life preserved but because each location reveals a history of evolution of one type of creature and highlights three key evolutionary moments: early life in the seas, feathered dinosaurs and the rise of birds and the birth of mammals. Together they tell a story not just of the ancient past, but how that past was discovered. In the second episode, 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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Title from resource description page (viewed March 06, 2019) |
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"Nature's hidden treasures" |
| Performer |
Presented by Richard Fortey |
| Notes |
In English |
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Paleontological excavations -- China
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Fossils -- China
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Dinosaurs -- China
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Feathers, Fossil -- China
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Dinosaurs.
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Feathers, Fossil.
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Fossils.
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Paleontological excavations.
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China.
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Documentary television programs.
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Documentary television programs.
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Documentaires télévisés.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Duthy, Sebastian, director
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Trevisick, Shaun, producer
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Lion Television Ltd., production company.
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Fifth Estate Media, production company
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Zennor TV, production company
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