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Professor Richard Fortey journeys high in the Rocky Mountains to explore a 520-million-year-old fossilized seabed containing bizarre lifeforms that revolutionized our understanding about the beginnings of complex life. His discoveries include: marine creatures with five eyes and a proboscis; filter-feeders shaped like tulips; worm-like scavengers covered in spikes but with no identifiable head or anus; and a meter-long predator resembling a giant...
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Some animals appear to have taken Nature's gifts and stretched them to extreme limits. With these two natural curiosities one creature has ended up with a super-stretched neck, the other a stretchy tongue. In both cases Nature has found a way to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.