PBS Eons: Could You Survive the K-Pg Extinction?

PBS Eons has another of their longer form videos which address major events in the history of the Earth.  This one is about the K-Pg mass extinction event about 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.  Would/could you survive?  Remember, this event took out the non-avian dinosaurs, the ammonites, and many, many more species.

66 million years ago, an asteroid hit our planet triggering global wildfires, an impact winter, and the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Could you make it through the darkest days of planet Earth?

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