The Deep-Time Traveler
Q: You grew up in the Great Plains, the region that you survey in your new three-part PBS series, Prehistoric Road Trip, premiering June 17. Did that influence your focus?
My family still has ranch was excavated. I go to work and look at this amazing fossil that millions of people have seen and know that there’s this really deep link between where we are both from. How fossils can shape your identity was something I wanted to explore.