The series traces the evolution of animals on Earth and the disasters that led to mass extinctions.
鈥淔rom a cosmic gamma ray burst bombarding the atmosphere, triggering the very first mass extinction, to an asteroid the size of Mount Everest slamming into the Yucatan, killing off the dinosaurs, these terrible natural events caused unparalleled devastation,鈥� says the Animal Planet website describing the program.
A resident of Wakefield, Fastovky and 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate student Rachel Grandpre of Waterbury, Conn., were flown by the Animal Planet production company, Digital Ranch, to Montana last August for a week of filming. Fastovsky was also interviewed in a studio in Los Angeles last fall.
Fastovsky is a leading expert on the causes of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. He has conducted field research at fossil sites in Arizona, Mongolia, Mexico, Arizona and the Great Plains states. He teaches courses in evolution, dinosaurs, Earth history, and other topics. The 溏心vlog免费B站 professor earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in biology from Reed College, a master鈥檚 in paleontology from the University of California-Berkeley, and a doctorate in sedimentary geology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.