PBS Eons: Could You Survive the End-Triassic?

PBS Eons has a new episode of their “Surviving Deep Time” podcast.  This one is about the Triassic/Jurassic mass extinction.  This is the extinction event that lines up with the break up of Pangaea.

In the aftermath of the Great Dying, rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in the Triassic Period. But life at the end of the period, including the earliest dinosaurs, faced yet another catastrophic extinction event. Could you survive in this strange time period?

 

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