The Great Dyings
Season 1, Episode 5: The K-Pg Mass Extinction: The Day the Dinosaurs Died
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Around 201 million years ago at the end of the Triassic when the rise of a new lineage of animals would mark the beginning of over 130 million years of peace and prosperity. A world untouched by climate change, tectonic processes, and extinctions which was allowed to prosper under the rule of some of the most powerful and well-known prehistoric beasts ever known… the Dinosaurs. But if there's one thing that we all know about good things, it's that they are never meant to last. 66 million years ago at the end of the Mesozoic, a cataclysmic event would change the world forever, ending this age of peace and the age of the non-avian dinosaurs…
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Chilling Tale of the Ordovician-Silurian Mass Extinction
Episode 2
The Strange Story of the Late Devonian Mass Extinction
Episode 3
How the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction Almost Killed Life on Earth
Episode 4
How the Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction Gave Rise to the Dinosaurs
Episode 5
The K-Pg Mass Extinction: The Day the Dinosaurs Died