Discovering fossils video
Maia and Keiran discover what a fossil is, how fossils get inside rocks and what fossils can tell us about living things.
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Topics:
Living things and their habitats, Rocks, Evolution and inheritance, Human and physical geography
How do rocks get on the beach? What is a fossil and how does it get inside a rock? Maia and Keiran ask these questions and more as they investigate the beach at Lyme Regis.
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