About this episode

The episode explores fossil graveyards and what they reveal about past life on Earth and climate conditions.

Scientists will sometimes strike palaeontological gold and discover 'fossil graveyards', sites containing thousands or millions of animal bodies, which have fossilised allowing study today. Belinda Smith speaks to palaeontologists working at two very different types of fossil graveyard — one in Australia, the other in Canada — to find out what accumulated fossilised remains reveal about life on Earth before humans impacted the ecology and when climate was very different.

People in this episode

Host: Belinda Smith

Topics covered

• fossils
• palaeontology
• climate change
• ecology
• animal remains
• fossil graveyards

Keywords

• fossil graveyards
• palaeontology
• climate
• ecology
• animal bodies
• fossilized remains

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Places: Australia, Canada

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