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FASCINATING DEATHS
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In Fascinating Deaths Jessica Holm studies the skeletons of two extinct creatures to find out how they lived and what their deaths can tell us about the world they lived in.
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| Jessica Holm in search of clues to the mysterious demise of the West Runton Elephant and the Taung Child. |
Programme 1: The West Runton Elephant
Jessica visits West Runton in Norfolk to investigate the puzzling death of a huge mammoth that roamed the landscape about 700,000 years ago. It's preserved bones are enormous and standing at four and a half metres tall and weighing ten tons, the mammothe was twice the size of modern elephants - so who or what might have killed it?
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Programme 2: The Taung Child
Jessica turns detective to solve a 2 million year old murder mystery. She takes a close look at the skull of the "Taung Child", a 3 year old infant of an ape-like species seen as a missing link between apes and humans. It's taken scientists over 80 years to work out how this animal died - and the culprit came as quite a shock.
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West Runton Elephant (Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service)
The Taung Child (Natural History Museum)
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