Prehistoric Road Trip
Join Emily Graslie for a summer road trip through the heart of America's dinosaur country.
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Preview
30s
Join Emily Graslie for a summer road trip through the heart of America's dinosaur country.
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Episode 1 Preview | Welcome to Fossil Country
S1 Ep1 | 30s
Travel through billions of years of history to meet some of the earliest life forms.
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There’s Something Fishy in Montana’s Fossil Deposits
S1 Ep1 | 2m 35s
Emily Graslie and Dr. Eileen Grogan look for fossil fish in Montana.
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Episode 2 Preview | We Dig Dinosaurs
S1 Ep2 | 30s
Cruise into the Cretaceous, when astonishing creatures like T. rex dominated the planet.
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How the Soil Tells the Story of the Dinosaur Extinction
S1 Ep2 | 3m 18s
The soil in North Dakota has clues from the day the dinosaurs went extinct.
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Episode 3 Preview | Tiny Teeth, Fearsome Beasts
S1 Ep3 | 30s
Join Emily as discovers surprising truths hidden in the fossil record.
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A 32-Million-Year-Old Murder Mystery
S1 Ep3 | 2m 43s
Emily Graslie talks to Kylie Ferguson, who made a surprising discovery as a kid.
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The Black Hills: My Backyard
3m 16s
Emily meets up with geologist Dr. Mark Fahrenbach at Custer State Park.
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Early Hints of Life
5m 13s
Emily talks to Dr. Kelli Trujillo about the bacteria that made our planet oxygen-rich.
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There’s Something Fishy in Central Montana
11m 9s
Emily travels to central Montana in search of ancient fish fossils.
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How Do Fossils Form?
6m 44s
Emily meets with Dr. Sarah Keenan to understand the fossilization process.
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The Bone Wars
2m 30s
An infamous battle between two early paleontologists played out at the Morrison Formation.
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Traces of Discovery
5m 25s
Emily talks with Melissa Connely about a discovery she made within a trace fossil.
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Triceratops through Time
6m 17s
Emily travels to Montana to talk to Dr. John Scannella about how Triceratops evolved.
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Surveying with Standing Rock
6m 27s
Benjamin M. Eagle shows Emily around a fossil site in Standing Rock.
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Tracing the Day the Dinosaurs Died
4m 11s
Emily talks to paleontologist Dr. Clint Boyd about the day the dinosaurs died.
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Survivors of the Apocalypse
3m 43s
Emily visits the Pioneer Trails Regional Museum to look at a collection of tiny fossils.
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Tiny Teeth, Big Pictures
2m 24s
Dr. Laura Vietti demonstrates the technology used to examine tiny fossils.
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The Lost Monument
3m 45s
The decommissioned Fossil Cycad National Monument was once a rich paleobotany site.
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The Value of Fossils
12m 6s
Emily Graslie explores the history of fossil collection on Native American land.
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Climate Change in the Fossil Record
9m 11s
Emily meets up with a team of scientists studying an ancient global warming event.
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Climate Change in the Fossil Record
9m 11s
Emily meets up with a team of scientists studying an ancient global warming event.
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Mary Anning Found More Than Seashells by the Seashore
3m 48s
Mary Anning was an early paleontologist who didn’t get credit in her time.
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What Can We Learn from Looking Inside a Dinosaur Bone?
5m 5s
Go behind the scenes of the paleohistology lab at Museum of the Rockies.
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Road Trip Reflections: Geology Rocks!
4m 55s
Emily Graslie and director and producer Ally Gimbel reflect on the road trip.
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Meet the Rock Stars of Paleontology and Geology
5m 44s
The experts from Prehistoric Road share their experiences and advice.
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Behind the Scenes: Camping Accommodations
2m 18s
Emily shows off the camp site where the Prehistoric Road Trip crew stayed a few nights.
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