Fossil Wonderlands: Nature's Hidden Treasures Season 1

E1: 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.

E2: 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.

E3: 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.