“Paleo Sleuths” explores a series of paleontology excavations that showcase the changing landscape and animal life on America's Great Plains – beginning 34 million years ago with the Ice Age.
Through interviews with paleontology experts, modern-day footage of excavations, historic re-enactments, archival photographs, and stunning animations with 3-D models that bring pre-historic figures to life, the educational and informative “Paleo Sleuths” features fossil discoveries in the Great Plains that challenge popular understanding of the origins of mammals.
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(L-R): Paleontology experts Dan Fisher, Mike Voorhies and Greg Brown with a a mammoth discovery. (Undated photo)
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Skeletal structure of an elephant-like mammal called the Gomphothere.
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Paleontologist Mike Voorhies examines a beaver tooth.
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Paleontologist Ross Secord and skeletal structure of a Brontothere.
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Paleontologist Mike Voorhies at Ashfall Fossil Beds in Neb.
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A female and baby Teleoceros rhinos discovery at Ashfall Fossil Beds in Neb.
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