While at the Natural History Museum in London last weekend, I picked up a copy of Lost Worlds Vanished Lives, a four-part series on fossils and paleontology written and presented by Sir David Attenborough. This series, originally released in 1989 somehow slipped under the radar for me. I had not heard of it before and was happily surprised to discover the DVD (released in 2004) on the shelf at the museum gift shop—it's a rare thing to come across a natural history series by the BBC that I haven't seen before.

The series consists of four episodes:

• Episode 1: Magic in the Rocks
• Episode 2: Putting Flesh on Bone
• Episode 3: Dinosaur
• Episode 4: The Rare Glimpses