Jewels in the ASH.

Focuses on a fossil site in northeastern China's Liaoning Province. Discoveries of dinosaurs, birds, mammals, fish and insect fossils preserved in clay, silt and ash; Details of fossilized specimens; Comments of Xu Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing; History of the area; How conditions provided a fruitful environment for plants and animals to differentiate and flourish; Discovery of fossils of dinosaurs with feathers, which supported the now widely endorsed theory that modern-day birds descended from dinosaurs. INSETS: Aquatic Prowler;Dino Becomes Dinner.