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How creatures from the sea conquered the land...
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Credits
- Participant
- Jenny Clack
- Director
- Alex Steinitz
- Producer
- Alex Steinitz
- Executive Producer
- Sacha Baveystock
Beautiful Minds, Series 2 Episode 1 of 3
Duration: 1 hour
For palaeontologist Professor Jenny Clack, who solved one of the greatest mysteries in the history of life on Earth, success was far from inevitable. She recounts how she had to overcome a series of setbacks before she found and described the fossil Acanthostega, a 365 million-year-old creature that offered dramatic new evidence of how fish made the transition onto land.
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