Fossil Detectives
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- Episode
- Scotland
- Broadcast Info
- 2008 (29 mins)
- Description
- The Fossil Detectives head to Scotland for a fascinating ride through earth’s history, meeting all kinds of strange prehistoric creatures along the way.
Hermione returns to Edinburgh, where she now lives, and where the geologist James Hutton first grasped the concept that the present is the key to the past.
Hermione has an unusual fishing lesson, where she tackles strange, armoured fish dating back hundreds of millions of years.
She investigates the truth about Loch Ness, revealing the real secrets of the watery depths of Scotland’s most legendary loch.
Hermione investigates the exciting techniques scientists are using to find fossil fuel - by using microfossil technology. And she finds out what golf has got to do with all of this.
There is a spot of prospecting at a quarry, and the discovery of the tracks of ancient mammal-like reptiles that pre-dated the dinosaurs. Hermione also finds out the extraordinary story of a block of quarried stone that turned out to have amazing evidence of prehistoric life inside. Only cutting edge MRI scans could expose the truth, and now viewers have the chance to see for themselves.
Edinburgh Hutton James Loch Ness fossil fuel detection microfossil technology quarry prospecting pre-dinosaur reptile tracks MRI scanning rock - Genre
- Geology; Natural History
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Fossil Detectives". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/7826 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)