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A series of six 25-minute television programmes in which palaeontologist Julian Hume and archaeologist Peter Floore search for evidence as to why certain animals became extinct. Using scientific research,...
Short documentary. Using tiny amounts of DNA extracted from specimens of three flowers stored at Harvard University’s Herbaria, an interdisciplinary team of biotechnology researchers, engineers, and...
In 2000 in a Latvian museum, fossil hunter Per Ahlberg found a tiny fossilised jawbone, believed to be a remnant of an extinct animal which could provide the vital clue in solving one of evolutions’...
Thousands of species each year become extinct as a result of human exploitation of natural resources. Millions more - we can only guess how many, many of which are still undiscovered, still unclassified and...
Documents the 14-year quest for the four-legged coelacanth, the 400 million-year-old fish. Once thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs, the coelacanth was rediscovered in 1938. Includes background...
Introduces a series of practical classes forming part of a course at honours level on the evolution of vascular land plants. Each one surveys briefly a number of specimens (including fossils of extinct...
Follows scientists’ quest for mammoth fossils in order to establish the reasons why the animal, an ancient relative of the elephant, finally became extinct. Fossil finds in the Siberian Arctic indicate...
Drawing on the expertise of molecular biologists, palaeontologists, embryologists and animal park designers, the programme builds a hypothetical ‘Jurassic Park’. Examines the real problems that lie in...
The Gobi Desert of Mongolia is the world’s harshest places and its greatest dinosaur graveyard. An expedition from the American Museum of Natural History follows in the 1920s’ footsteps of one of the...
Scientists are collecting blood samples from the Ahuaco and Asario Indians who live in the remote rain forests of northeern Columbia in order to provide DNA for the Human Genome Biodiversity Project. The aim...
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