Prehistoric Road Trip

Director & Executive Producer | June 2020 | PBS

Prehistoric Road Trip is a three-part natural history series combining science, culture, and adventure for an unforgettable expedition through hundreds of millions of years of our planet’s past. The series is hosted by popular YouTube personality Emily Graslie, Chief Curiosity Correspondent at the Field Museum. On this immersive road trip, Graslie reveals the geologically recorded stories of North American dinosaurs and other fascinating prehistoric creatures, including ancient fishes, mammoths and early mammals. The series brings this now-extinct world to life using dynamic illustration and motion graphics, stunning aerial photography, and a diverse cast of characters, from academics to amateur fossil hunters.

Stream the show

Watch the latest episodes below. Season one now available on PBS and Youtube.

E01 - Welcome to Fossil Country

Travel through billions of years of history to meet some of the earliest life forms. 

E02 - We Dig Dinosaurs

Cruise into the Cretaceous, where astonishing creatures like T. rex dominated the planet. 

E03 - Tiny Teeth, Fearsome Beasts

Join Emily as she discovers surprising truths hidden in the fossil record. 

What people are saying

Acclaim from across the internet and across the globe.

“For viewers, it offers an opportunity to see scientists at work as they excavate, study and display everything from sauropod dinosaurs to the remains of leaves and clams from the long-gone Cretaceous Sea.”

— The Washington Post

 

“Emily Graslie, wants you to wrap your head around the vastness of geologic time, to find joy in seeing the outline of a fish fossilized in rock, and to really, really dig digging for dinosaurs. If you have an ounce of interest in the natural world, these aren’t hard things to do. But it helps a lot to have Graslie, as unflappable as she is wide-eyed, as your interpreter.”

— Chicago Tribune

 

“To say that Prehistoric Road Trip gets into the weeds doesn’t do it justice. It gets into the weeds, the high grass, the rock formations, the mud, the muck and the fossilized remains of about 2.5 billion years’ worth of microbes and monsters. Also, the history and processes of paleontology. It’s the T-Rex of nerd TV. And highly entertaining.”

— The Wall Street Journal

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