FROM THE BBC WILDLIFE ARCHIVE: May 1989

Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives

The hatchling protoceratops on the May 1989 cover of BBC Wildlife illustrates a feature on Sir David Attenborough’s new, four-part series Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives, which explores “natural time capsules” (fossils). The broadcaster describes palaeontology as “essentially detective work” and reflects on collecting fossils as a boy: “I would try to find out more about them… And when you discover that they are 150 or 200 million years old, it’s amazing. And when you think that you are the first person ever to have seen them… I thought it was romantic then, and I still think it is.”