BBC Earth to air two-hour special Dinosaur Apocalypse

TORONTO — Blue Ant Media announced today BBC Earth will premiere a new two-part special, Dinosaur Apocalypse, hosted by well-known naturalist and documentary maker Sir David Attenborough (above), on Thursday, June 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. This one-night, two-hour special explores “how a wealth of newly uncovered fossils may provide a never-before-seen glimpse of events on the day an asteroid struck Earth, ending the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago,” reads a press release. Although there is strong evidence of the asteroid’s impact, “no fossils of a dinosaur killed in the event itself have ever been found. Now,...