Paleontologist Answers Extinction Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Founder and Executive director of the Edelman Fossil Park of Rowan University Paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about the phenomenon of extinction. How do we know an asteroid killed the dinosaurs? Where was the impact? Could humans go extinct in the same fashion? What are the five mass extinctions? Why are we trying to bring back extinct species, isn't it dangerous? Which species came closest to extinction but bounced back? Answers to these questions and plenty more await on Extinction Support. 0:00 Extinction Support 0:17 How do we know an asteroid killed the dinosaurs? 0:45 How did everybody else survive, then? 1:14 Where is the Asteroid that killed the Dinosaurs? 1:56 Don’t call it a comeback 3:07 Mosquitoes & Flies—who would miss them? 3:34 How many animals have humans hunted to extinction? 4:28 Sounds like you’re just afraid of competition 5:05 Extinct or just hidden? 6:09 Super-volcanoes and you 6:58 Could humans go extinct if another Chixilub asteroid hit Earth? 7:57 What if it wasn’t an asteroid though? 8:48 Why couldn’t dinosaurs bounce back? 9:37 Does human intelligence evolve without dinosaurs going extinct? 10:42 Fact or Fiction? 11:12 A scalding hot take on Pandas 11:45 Roaches will outlive us all 12:01 Next extinction event 12:34 An extinction so big it made the evidence go extinct 13:08 Sixth Mass Extinction 14:02 Has Hollywood taught us nothing? 15:43 That one’s not on us 16:46 "Species of least concern"? 17:23 What are the five mass extinctions? 19:47 It’s not .xls 20:22 Sharks: Why? Director: Justin Wolfson Director of Photography: Ben Dewey Editor: Richard Trammell Expert: Kenneth Lacovara Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi Associate Producer: Brandon White Production Manager: Peter Brunette Production Coordinator: Anthony Wooten Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer Camera Operator: Caleb Weiss Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen Production Assistant: Sonia Butt Post Produ