Paleo Sleuths

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Sunday, June 22 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2

“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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