David Attenborough's Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives: 1. Magic in the Rocks (1989)

In the first of this four-part BBC series, David Attenborough shows us how ancient creatures have come to be preserved as fossils and how those fossils can shed light on characteristics of these creatures' lives, and even their death. He further demonstrates how scientists use a variety of ingenious methods to extract once living creatures and plants from their rocky tombs.

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In it he goes to the Jurassic Coast and talks about his early experiences fossil hunting in Leicestershire.

For those not in the UK.