What's that in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a 7 mile wide asteroid destined to end life as we know it? No, it's another Poppy-sode heading straight for your ear holes! Don't worry, the impact of this episode probably won't disrupt the global climate causing a decades long winter. Probably.
This week, Poppy talks us through the Big 5 Mass Extinctions. What was the world like? How did it happen? What changed afterwards? Then she gives us a deeper dive into the Chicxulub Event A.K.A. the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs.
Tuck cozily into whatever your version of a little mammalian burrow is and travel back millions of years with us to the day the dinosaurs died.
*Content Warning*: This episode discusses topics such as animal death, climate change, and existential tragedy. Please listen with care.
If you'd like to skip the hypothetical, the game ends at 9:28.
Sources:
- The Day the Dinosaurs Died - Kurzgesagt video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFCbJmgeHmA
- The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Future
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- ExtinctZoo Podcast: The Closest Life Has Ever Come To Going Extinct, (2024, November 2)
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