S1E4:The Rare Glimpses

14 May 198940 minTV-G

Just occasionally, as mud turned to stone, conditions were so perfect for fossilization that even the softest parts of animals were preserved in astonishing detail. David Attenborough unearths bizarre creatures of the earliest seas, tiny horses the size of spaniels, imperial mammoths, saber-tooth big cats and, the rarest of them all, an animal that was half bird and half reptile.