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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Living things and their habitats, Rocks, Evolution and inheritance, Human and physical geography
See a simple demonstration of how fossils are formed, be introduced to sedimentary rock and identify the animals found in fossils on Lyme Regis beach
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