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This is The Let's Go Club but mini!

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Expect making, exploring, super-sizing,

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dancing, fact-finding and laughing.

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We've only got a few minutes,

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so get ready for more fun from The Let's Go Club.

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-Hi, I'm Jamie.

-And I'm Adam.

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Today, we're going to go looking for fossils.

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BOTH: Let's go.

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This is Will.

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He knows everything about rocks and fossils

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so he's going to show us how to be fossil hunters.

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Hi, Jamie. Hi, Adam. I've got a really special rock here.

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There's something on here. Can anyone see what it is?

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-Is it a footprint?

-It's like a footprint, isn't it?

-Yeah.

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Can you see these footprints here? Can you see that?

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With one, two, three toes. There's some dinosaur footprints.

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Where do you think it might have come from?

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The dinosaurs leave the footprints on the beach

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and then they were staying there for a long time

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and turned into this rock.

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That's right. Half the dinosaur made it in the soft sand.

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It then got turned into rock,

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buried really deep and eventually ended up in the top of these cliffs,

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these yellow rocks at the top,

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dropped out onto the beach and we find them as fossils.

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It's 165 million years old.

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Today, we're going to go and look for some fossils

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from the bottom of the cliff that are even older.

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-Can we go looking for fossils now?

-I think that's a really good idea.

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I've got some really special kit for you guys today.

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I've got a bucket each. There's one for you, Adam.

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A bucket for you as well, Jamie.

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I've also got some really nice checklists just here

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with some pictures on it of fossils we might find.

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So these are the fossils from the sea shells

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that used to live in the ocean that once covered

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all of this part of where we are today.

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Could you tell which rock are fossils?

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That's a really great question.

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What we need to do is find some of the grey rocks on this beach.

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These are the ones that might have the fossils shells in.

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Sometimes on the outside, but quite often on the inside.

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So if you find any of these grey rocks

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with lumps or bumps, funny shapes,

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put them in your bucket and we'll have a look at them.

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-Well, what have you got, Jamie?

-I found this fossil.

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You see this heart shape in here?

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This is one of the ones you call a Bivalve.

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Can you find Bivalve on your checklist, guys?

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Look at this one here. This is a really nice one.

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One of the coiled-up ones that we call the Ammonite. Yeah?

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Have you seen this one on your checklist?

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When it was alive, there was a squid that lived

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at this bottom end of the shell here,

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swimming around in our ocean.

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Sometimes, some of our fossils

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are actually still hidden inside the rock.

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-So can we smash one of them open?

-We could do, couldn't we?

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We could maybe split one of these rocks open,

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-see if there's anything inside.

-Yep.

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Splitting rocks can be dangerous

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and should only be done by a grown-up.

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So this here is some of the shell, here, yeah?

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So, this is the coil of the Ammonite.

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You can actually see the coil quite nice on that one,

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-the spiral.

-Yeah.

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We're making notes about what we find.

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I'm drawing a picture of my fossil.

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These fossils here are Belemnites.

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This rock is just a little bit big to carry off the beach,

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I think, so what can we do?

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Take a picture of it.

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Great idea. Here you go. Over to you.

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Some fossils are in the ground,

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but we can still remember them by taking a photo

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and then making a rubbing of this fossil.

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OK, so now it's time for the best thing about fossil hunting,

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I think it's hot chocolate time. What do you say? BOTH: Yeah!

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You can join the Let's Go Club, too.

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Grab a grown-up and head to the CBeebies website.

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There are songs to sing, things to make and do

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and CBeebies radio, too.

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Remember, we're the club that never closes.

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