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Professor Jenny Clack

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Jenny Clack recounts how she overcame setbacks before she found and described a fossil which offered new evidence of how fish made the transition onto land.

For palaeontologist Professor Jenny Clack, who solved one of the greatest mysteries in the history of life on Earth, success was far from inevitable. She recounts how she had to overcome a series of setbacks before she found and described the fossil Acanthostega, a 365 million-year-old creature that offered dramatic new evidence of how fish made the transition onto land.

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Mon 16 Apr 2012 23:00

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Role Contributor
Participant Jenny Clack
Participant Jenny Clack
Director Alex Steinitz
Director Alex Steinitz
Producer Alex Steinitz
Producer Alex Steinitz
Executive Producer Sacha Baveystock
Executive Producer Sacha Baveystock

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