Dinosaurs (TRIH ep 109)
66,000,000 BCE · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the cultural and scientific history of dinosaurs: how people first interpreted large fossils in antiquity, the 18th–19th century breakthroughs (Buckland, Mantell, Owen), and the Crystal Palace displays. They examine Mary Anning’s pioneering fossil work (marine reptiles), the mid‑Victorian intersection of geology and Christianity (Ussher, Buckland, Darwinism), and the transatlantic boom of American paleontology (Cope, Marsh, Barnum Brown) includi... Dated to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction that ended the dinosaurs.
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Around 66000000 BCE
- Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction (66000000 BCE)