Weird Wonders / BBC Worldwide Ltd.

Professor Richard Fortey journeys high in the Rocky Mountains to explore a 520-million-year-old fossilized seabed containing bizarre lifeforms that revolutionized our understanding about the beginnings of complex life. His discoveries include: marine creatures with five eyes and a proboscis; filter-...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Films on Demand. Fossil Wonderlands.
Corporate Authors:	Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm) Infobase
Language:	English
Language of the Original:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned.
Published:	New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014], ©2014.
Series:	Films on Demand. Fossil Wonderlands.
Subjects:	Curiosities and wonders. Educational films. Internet videos.
Genre:	Educational films. Internet videos.
Online Access:	Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (49 min.) : sound, color.
Format:	Electronic Video

Contents:

Weird Wonders: Introduction (3:23)
Yoho National Park (2:14)
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1:18)
Burgess Shale (3:17)
Pembrokeshire Coast (2:17)
Paradoxides (2:12)
Royal Ontario Museum (3:08)
Burgess Shale Trilobite (1:25)
Shale Fossils (3:00)
Taphonomy (3:17)
Anomalocaris (2:17)
Anomalocaris Canadensis (3:19)
Opabinia (1:13)
Stephen Jay Gould (2:58)
Royal Ontario Museum Field Work (2:40)
Cambrian Sea Life (3:53)
Burgess Shale Non-Fossil Discoveries (2:04)
Summary and Preview (2:12)
Fossil Record (1:39)
Credits: Weird Wonders (0:38)
Yoho_Walcott_Burgess (3:29)
Yoho_Walcott_Burgess (3:29)