About this event:

Fossil Planet is a special program offered by the Royal Tyrrell Distance Learning Studio that takes our audience around the world to explore the history of life on earth. Insects, the most successful and numerous animals of all time. They hold a wide variety of specialized adaptations and have a strong ability to react with their environment. Insects are very quick to evolve to new opportunities and the fossil record can show us an amazing glimpse into the lives of insects from millions of years ago. This program will cover the tough armor exoskeleton found in insects and why this makes insect fossils possible. We will also look at insect fossils encased in amber and their relatives the trilobites and sea scorpions.

This program cannot be recorded due to copyright restrictions.

Program duration is 30 to 40 minutes.

Earth & Space Science, Rocks & Fossils, Earth’s Place in the Universe, Molecules to Organisms, Structures and Processes, Biological Evolution, Unity and Diversity, Environmental Change, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Structure and Function, Common Ancestry