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During construction at a Colorado ski resort, a bulldozer dug up a tooth so huge it had to be held in two hands. Scientists from the local Denver museum found a vast trove of fossils from the Ice Age 100,000...
Using cutting-edge technology and the specialised knowledge of world-class experts, this original series attempts a science and television first. Gathering all the disparate, fragmentary evidence of three of...
From the fog bound coastline of Newfoundland to the deserts of North Africa and the rainforests of Queensland, Attenborough finds evidence in fossils and living animals of an extraordinary period in...
This is an archive copy of a live presentation and webcast by museum palaeontologist Peter Forey. In 1938, a strange fish was caught in the Indian Ocean. It was recognised as a living example of a family of...
Paleobotanist Bob Spicer examines various field sites in New Zealand and several exotic locations around the world to show how plants and their fossils can give detailed information about the earth’s...
In 1993 a fossil was unearthed from a Sussex gravel pit which turned out to be the shin of a half million-year-old human: ‘Boxgrove Man’. Archaeologists returned to the site in summer 1995 to investigate...
The history of Britain as known from the genetic makeup it her people. Geneticist Sir Walter Bodmer sets out on a journey around Britain to prove how our genes can uncover a hidden history of our people,...
How did our ancestors evolve their large brains? Inspired by Cray super-computer cooling systems and a car radiator, scientists have now linked big brain with walking upright. Living in the new hotter...
Looks at theories on the origins of life. When did life begin and did it evolve on earth, in the sea or in space? In 1953, scientists thought that they had found the answer with a recipe for a primordial...
Dr Robert Foley argues, given the traditional view that human intelligence led the ‘homo sapiens’ to dominate the planet, scientists have examined human evolution in isolation rather than viewing the...
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