Fossil Bonanza
Fossil Bonanza focuses on amazing fossil sites from around the world called Fossil-Lagerstätten. Each episode will focus on a fantastic fossil site like La Brea Tar Pits or Naracoorte Caves. We will discover amazing fossils, reconstruct ancient ecosystems, and learn the hidden truths about our ancient world.
Episodes
8 episodes
Naracoorte Caves: Australia's Megafauna
In our last episode for Season 1, we get trapped at the World Heritage Site, Naracoorte Caves in southeast Australia! We'll learn about Australia's weird megafauna like the not-tapir-like-Marsupial Tapir and the hypercarnivore, Marsupial ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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40:41
Jehol Biota: The Mesozoic Pompeii (Part 2)
We saw the environment now let's see the animals! Jehol has an amazing collection of animals including feathered tyrannosaurs, toothy birds, dinosaur-eating mammals, and more! Let's learn about all the weird citizens that lived in t...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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40:11
Jehol Biota: The Mesozoic Pompeii (Part 1)
The last thirty years has seen of flurry of amazing fossils of feathered birds and dinosaurs from Early Cretaceous China. The Jehol Biota has influenced our understanding on the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. For part 1, we'll e...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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42:55
Dominican Amber: The Forgotten Island Forest
Step back into the Miocene and traverse the jungles of ancient Hispaniola! We'll look at the Dominican Amber and all its weird and wonderful inclusions including parasites, luckless stingless bees, wandering spiders, and a salamander that...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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34:01
Amber 101
Welcome to a crash course on amber! We answer crucial amber questions such as where does it come from? What's the difference between amber and copal? And can it preserve DNA?? And stay tuned next time cause we'll look at...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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21:30
Posidonia Shale: Giant Crinoids and Mother Ichthyosaurs
Take a cruise on the Tethys Sea in Jurassic Germany! We explore the wonderful Posidonia Shale and learn about embryonic ichthyosaurs, hitchhiking crinoids, and hungry squids. And learn how one man changed the name of the fish-lizard...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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42:06