Professor Richard Fortey travels to northeastern China to see a fossil site known as the "Dinosaur Pompeii," a place that has yielded feathered dinosaur remains and rewritten the story of bird origins. Among the finds he investigates are the feathered cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex, a feathered dinosaur with strong parallels to living pandas, and some of the most remarkable flying animals that have ever lived.
Professor Richard Fortey travels to northeastern China to see a fossil site known as the "Dinosaur Pompeii," a place that has yielded feathered dinosaur remains and rewritten the story of bird origins. Among the finds he investigates are the feathered cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex, a feathered dinosaur with strong parallels to living pandas, and some of the most remarkable flying animals that have ever lived.
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Content Note
Intro: Feathered Dinosaurs(1:22) -- Fossil Feathers (0:45) -- IVPP (3:14) -- Dinosaur Pompeii (2:43) -- Liaoning Province Fossils (1:53) -- Sinosauropteryx (3:08) -- Beipiaosaurus (2:58) -- Caudipteryx (1:37) -- Living Dinosaurs (2:50) -- Shenyang Paleontological Museum (2:02) -- Anchiornis Huxleyi (2:35) -- Archaeopteryx (3:09) -- Evolution Skepticism (0:50) -- Microraptor (1:47) -- "Morris" (3:17) -- Origin of Feathered Flight? (3:34) -- 3D Computer Dinosaurs (1:33) -- London Natural History Museum (2:44) -- Confuciusornis (3:16) -- Flora and Fauna of Liaoning Province (1:55) -- Review and Preview (1:20) -- Credits: Feathered Dinosaurs (0:38).