Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures

20141h

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

Seasons

3 Episodes • Premiered 2014

Still image for Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures season 1 episode 1: Weird Wonders

1. Weird Wonders

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

Still image for Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures season 1 episode 2: Feathered Dinosaurs

2. Feathered Dinosaurs

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.

Still image for Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures season 1 episode 3: The Mammal Hothouse

3. The Mammal Hothouse

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

Cast

Photo of Richard Fortey

Richard Fortey

Self - Presenter

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