'Prehistoric Road Trip' host Emily Graslie, just outside Hanna, WY. Photo credit: Julie Florio and WTTW
WTTW has a post which announces a new 3-part natural history series entitled "Prehistoric Road Trip". The show is hosted by Emily Graslie, Chief Curiosity Correspondent at the Field Museum in Chicago. Emily is the host and creator of the popular YouTube series "The Brain Scoop". The show will premier on PBS stations nationwide in the summer of 2020. Wow, can't wait!
Filming is taking place this summer, as Graslie and a WTTW crew road trip around Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, and the Dakotas, where Graslie grew up. They're exploring 2.5 billion years of Earth's history through paleontology and fossil-hunting, from North American dinosaurs to ancient fishes, mammoths, and early mammals. Each of the three episodes will examine different eras in time, focusing on geology, ecology, and the environment, to understand what the United States looked like millions and even billions of years ago.
Beyond the three broadcast episodes, WTTW will provide extra opportunities for audiences to dive into Prehistoric Road Trip via a companion website featuring original digital content, behind-the-scenes travel journals, an interactive road trip map, and more.
It has taken billions of years for the Earth and the species on it to get to where they are today—waiting a year for Prehistoric Road Trip, until summer 2020, is nothing!
Here is a preview of the show, which is an episode of "The Brian Scoop".
