Ep. 455: The Wager with David Grann
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Audubon and the Chiczalube Strike
Dan Flores' Wild New World is a ecological history of North America. He began with the Chiczalube strike, which is the asteroid that collided with into the Gulf of Mexico off of Yucatan Peninsula. At an angle that he described very eloquently, when it struck,. I used to think of it, I don't know. The impacts of the angle. And Audubon and Dan Flores, Wild New World, Audubon is a somewhat celebrated figure because he starts to paint these beautiful paintings of birds from North America.
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