Interview with Dan Flores author of Wild New World

About this episode

Tripp Collins interviews Dan Flores about his book Wild New World, exploring North America's natural history and lost megafauna.

Send us Fan Mail Join host Tripp Collins for a sweeping conversation with environmental historian and author Dan Flores about his award-winning book Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America. In this episode, Dan takes us on a 65-million-year journey through North America's natural history—from the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs to the present day. We explore the continent's lost megafauna, including woolly mammoths and dire wolves, and discuss th...

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Host: Tripp Collins

Guest: Dan Flores

Topics covered

• environmental history
• natural history
• megafauna
• animals
• America

Keywords

• Wild New World
• Chicxulub asteroid
• woolly mammoths
• dire wolves

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Wild New World

Books & works: Wild New World, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

Places: North America's, Chicxulub

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