Why Dinosaurs Died But Birds & Crocodiles Didn’t? Evolutionary genomicist Professor Ed Braun (University of Florida) pulls back the curtain on 65 million years of life’s history, from dinosaurs and birds to humans, microbes, and the hidden logic of our genomes.

You’ll learn:

–Why most dinosaurs died while birds and crocodiles survived, and how a single asteroid, body size, and pure luck still leave a detectable signal in bird genomes today.

–How “junk DNA,” random mutations, and population size quietly shape evolution, and why small populations can spiral into extinction even when a species looks “saved” on paper.

–How birds massively outpaced crocodiles in evolutionary speed, what this reveals about generation time and mutation, and why a single chromosomal flip 65 million years ago still rewires how we  ...