Paleonet: Animal Planet series

[argo at u.washington.edu]

Many thanks to so many of you, both on camera and off, for contributing and
making this series happen.  February 12, on the Animal Planet Network, the 
first episode, the Ordovician Mass extinction, kicks things off.  Lots of large
nautiloids, eurypterids, and gobs of blue blood filling the ocean in the melee.

Here is a taste:http://animal.discovery.com/videos/animal-armageddon-coming-soon.html

We found that television requires compromises.  There will be errors.  But we
really tried to do justice to invertebrates as well as the charismatic
megafauna, right down to the appearance of sponges, horn corals, and 
appropriate
crinoids.

I will not see it, for I will be on James Ross Island, Antarctica, until March
20.

Professor Peter D Ward
Dept of Biology
The University of Washington
Seattle, 98195
206-543-2962  ( Office )