Fossil Detectives

Episode
Central England
Broadcast Info
2008 (29 mins)
Description
The Fossil Detectives start their journey in central England - home to a number of extremely rare and globally significant fossil discoveries - and some of the world’s most advanced fossil science.
Dr Hermione Cockburn meets the monster from the past that inspired Charles Dickens - and investigates T-Rex, in his unlikely home of Oxford.
She also gets to see extraordinary evidence of the world’s smallest fossilised mystery body part.
Hermione also goes hunting for fossilised bugs in a housing estate in Dudley. And the Fossil Detectives reveal the hidden treasure - buried and forgotten - which could transform our understanding of ancient marine creatures.
fossil science preserved soft tissue T-Rex Megolosaurus microfossil virtual dissection Dudley Bug Ediacaran fossils Charnwood Forest
Genre
Geology; Natural History

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The Open University, "Fossil Detectives". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/7817 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)