NDLI: NOVA: Australia's First Four Billion Years

Content Provider	PBS LearningMedia
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Learn about fish fossils that provide clues to the origins of reproduction methods using internal fertilization and live birth in this video excerpt from NOVA. The Gogo Formation in Australia contains exceptionally well-preserved fossils from the Devonian period. The fossils display many features of prehistoric fish, including jaws, teeth, fins, bony head plates, scales, and other soft body parts. Host and scientist Richard Smith learns about the oldest confirmed male appendage (a clasper of a placoderm, used to impregnate females) and the earliest evidence of live birth in a vertebrate (a mother placoderm with her unborn embryo).
Sponsorship	Corporation for Public Broadcasting David H. Koch
Language	English
Publisher	PBS Learning Media
Publisher Date	2014-03-19
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	WGBH Educational Foundation
Subject Keyword	Science Life Science Evolution Genetics and Heredity Evidence of Evolution Evolutionary Trees Heredity and Patterns of Inheritance Evidence in the Fossil Record Embryonic and Fetal Development
Content Type	Video
Educational Role	Teacher Student
Time Required	PT5M22S
Education Level	Class XI Class VII Class VIII Class IX Class XII Class VI Class X
Resource Type	Broadcast
Subject	Evolutionary Evidences

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