Join paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer Tyler Lyson for an extraordinary journey to the end of the age of dinosaurs. 

Traveling back 66 million years, Lyson traces the fall of iconic giants such as Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex, whose 180-million-year reign ended with a catastrophic asteroid impact. Follow the birds and mammals that survived the apocalypse and adapted to thrive, a story revealed in one of the most extraordinary fossil finds in recent memory. 

Lyson is curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where he oversees the fossil reptile collection. His research explores the early evolution of reptiles, particularly turtles, and the drivers and recovery of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. A graduate of Swarthmore College, he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in geology and paleontology from Yale University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History before joining the Denver Museum in 2014.