Henry Gee

If you go to Bradgate Park in Leicester, it's a public park, and in the middle there are these enormous great rocks which are pre-Cambrian.

It's a little splot of pre-Cambrian in the middle of the English Midlands, and it's got Ediacaran fossils on them, but they're thick.

very, very hard to see.

I mean, some of them are huge.

I mean, they're not tiny.

They're as big as a pair of trousers, you know, spread along the rocks.

There's one called Charnier Discus is one.

And they look like fronds, but you really need to see them at dawn or dusk when the light is slanting.

I mean, I remember...

being there trying to look for them and I went on a very sunny day at midday and even though they were right in front of me and I knew this because I was I was doing face timing my colleague Emily Mitchell in Cambridge who's an expert on Ediacaran forders and she knew exactly where I was so she was in Cambridge and I was in Bradgate Park and she said no left a bit left a bit right a bit there it is so the Ediacaran fossils they lived just before the Cambrian and then they disappeared

And there are people climbing around and walking their dogs and playing football.

And there they are.

I mean, it is mind blowing.

That's amazing.

That is so amazing.

And most people don't know they're there because they're very hard to spot unless you really know what you're looking for.

They were actually discovered by a small boy who was, I don't know, playing football or walking his dog.

I've no idea.

Well, nobody really knows with the Ediacaran what they were like.

I mean, some of them might be kind of colonial.