Introduction to Lyme Regis beach video
Visit Lyme Regis beach in Dorset with Maia and Keiran as they ask questions about rocks and fossils.
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Topics:
Living things and their habitats, Rocks, Evolution and inheritance, Human and physical geography
Look at the fossil and draw a picture of what the animal might have looked like when it was alive. Then, describe the parts of the ichthyosaur that did not become part of the fossil.
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