What if the blue whale wasn't the largest creature to have ever lived on Earth? Could the resurrection of ecosystems after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction have allowed ichthyosaurs to become the ultimate predators on our planet? With a team of fellow geologists, and in collaboration with the University of Bonn and the Museum of Los Angeles, I set out in search of the first ichthyosaurs.
Join Dr. Jean-Philippe Blouet for hikes covering hundreds of kilometers across the tundra on the Norwegian island of Svalbard, where face-to-face encounters with polar bears alternate with the discovery of fantastic fossils. We will then leave the Arctic for the heat of the Nevada desert. Between rattlesnakes and flash floods, the geological wonders of the Triassic are also well guarded there!
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