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This docuseries comes from an idea developed together with Zoofactory and National Geographic Italia to share stories and discoveries from all over the world related to dinosaurs. In each episode we explore some of the fossil sites that have written the history of dinosaurs and scientific exploration by showing the traces of the past left by the most fascinating creatures that have inhabited the earth.

Mongolia, Italy, England, Canada. Four adventures, four missions around the world to read the past, present and future of the events recorded in the planet's archive. What if fossils told us how life managed to survive changes?

The Dinosaur Hunter - Mongolia

The Gobi Desert in Mongolia is one the most important fossil locality in the world, a real hunting ground for scientists but also for poachers who plague this land in search of fossils for the black market. In this episode we follow an international expedition led by Fanti trying to develop a methodology that will concretely hinder the smuggling of fossils. The expedition is made up of 14 experts, leaves from the capital Ulan Bataar to reach Gurliin Tsaav and travels through the Altai Mountains towards the Nemegt, the heart of Mongolian paleontology.

The Dinosaur Hunter - Canada

Unusual, jaw-dropping fossils are hiding in the rocks exposed along remote areas of the Canadian boral forest in Alberta: mummified dinosaurs. Tens of footprints and dinosaur bones are emerging in the banks of inaccessible rivers. Rare specimens that are unfolding the great migrations from the cold lands of Alaska to southern Canada at the time of dinosaurs. Some of these skeletons preserve something of unexpected: fossilized dinosaur skin. Such discoveries are changing the way we imagine and reconstruct dinosaurs, allowing paleo-illustrators to recreate a lost word with higher accuracy.

Federico Fanti's journey continues in the badlands, a vast, lunar landscape that contrasts with the lushness of the forests. From Dinosaur Provincial Park, an immense open-air field of dinosaur skeletons, to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, the dinosaur capital of the world, home of one of the most incredible fossils ever found. Borealopelta, a mummified armored dinosaur. Last stop is Edmonton, to see the extraordinary mummy of a baby dinosaur.

The Dinosaur Hunter - Italy

In 1994, in the small town of Villaggio del Pescatore near Trieste, Italy, the remains of a large dinosaur were accidentally discovered. A species new to science, named Tethyshadros insularis and nicknamed Antonio. Many years later, from the very same locality, a second individual named Bruno, is finally fully prepared and revealed to the world.

Federico Fanti unfold the story of this unique fossil site and visit the most important localities in Italy where dinosaur remains have been found. One stop is in Puglia to admire a spectacular tracksite, then Gubbio, the place where a thin dark line hidden in a canyon revealed to the to the world one of the most famous events in the history of the planet: the impact of an asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs about 66 million years ago.

Experts share with Fanti science and anecdotes: Dr. Flavio Bacchia in Trieste, Dr. Marco Petruzzelli in Puglia and Dr. Alessandro Montanari in Umbria. Thanks to the paleo-illustrators Davide Bonadonna and Fabio Manucci it is possible to reconstruct Bruno, Antonio, and their time, when herds of dinosaurs moved undisturbed along the beaches of the Italian coast.

The Dinosaur Hunter - Great Britain

Legends, science and unique characters. Federico Fanti takes us on a journey to the United Kingdom the place where the story of dinosaurs originated. The scientific discoveries made in the 19th century by the first dinosaur hunters started one of the greatest scientific revolutions ever, when the scientific methodology started to counter centuries-old myths and fake news. Who discovered the first dinosaurs? What really is a dinosaur? Fascinating places that are intertwined with the history of the scientist who first attempted to study dinosaur remains. The first dinosaur hunter was actually a young woman: Mary Anning, the person who first revealed to the world the incredible 'sea monsters', ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, which dominated the seas at the time of the dinosaurs. From the Jurassic Coast and Lyme Regis, passing through the Natural History Museum in London and the wildest corners of Scotland we will follow Federico Fanti to the Oxford Museum and to the lost mines of Stonesfield to meet the Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur ever to be described. The journey ends at Siccar Point, a rocky promontory where the rocks sinking into the North Sea have revealed to us the true age of our planet .

Ocean's Breath

Coral reefs are the most impressive living organism of this planet. They are the lungs which has allowed life to exist on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. Today something has changed, coral reefs are dying. Should this happen, we would be facing history's most terrifying mass extinction. Who is killing coral reef?

Three scientists, Federico Fanti, Grace Young and Vanessa Loveburg are looking for answers. But how can a geologist and paleontologist, a robotic engineer and a marine biologist find what is really happening? By studying the crime scene. From Washington DC, at headquarters of the National Geography Laboratory, where Grace is designing marine drones for 3D scanning of coral reefs (and possibly also future exploration of planets like Europa and Encelado), to the coast in front the Saadani National Park in Tanzania where Vanessa is studying the coral reefs, to the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean, to the beautiful scenario of the Dolomites. The "crime scene" but also an inexhaustible source of clues and beauty. These three scientists, with the help of the latest technology, will share a disturbing truth: we are killing our planet. But not all is lost. There is a way of saving the coral reefs.

An idea born from Explorers of the National Geographic Society and Formasette. Federico Fanti, geologist and paleontologist, Grace Young, robotics engineer, and Vanessa Lovenburg, marine biologist.

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