Prehistoric Road Trip by Emily Graslie
Oh wow is this series (really just 3 episodes) fun. For all those of us who ever poured through the foldouts in National Geographic, the ones with the big diagrams showing each of the epochs, and which fossil beds were associated with them...
I felt like I was eight again. Or, no, like that eight year old and I were sitting there watching, connected, as Graslie actually goes to the digs. Meets the park rangers, the ones that are tangled up in the theories and the digs and the tensions between tribe and government and researchers and all the parts of paleontology that never showed up at the museum displays or the photo essays.
Just an absolute joy. Though I do wonder how many miles Graslie put on the odometers; my back and butt ache just thinking about the hours on the road this one had to take. Very much thank you, Emily Graslie, this was a wonderful presentation.
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