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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.

Professor Richard Fortey journeys high in the Rocky Mountains to explore a 520 million-year-old fossilised seabed containing bizarre and experimental life forms that have revolutionised our understanding about the beginnings of complex life. Among the amazing finds he uncovers are marine creatures with five eyes and a proboscis, filter-feeders shaped like tulips, worm-like scavengers covered in spikes but with no identifiable head or anus, and a metre-long predator resembling a giant shrimp.

1 hour

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Tue 7 Aug 2018 00:00

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Presenter Richard Fortey
Series Producer Shaun Trevisick
Executive Producer Bill Locke
Executive Producer Peter Lovering
Director Sebastian Duthy

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