Extinction tells the true stories of life's great disappearances, in deep time and in our own lifetimes. Each episode, host Nirob takes one extinction — an ice age that strangled the first reef-builders, a continent of volcanoes that turned the world toxic, an asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs, a flightless bird on a single island, a pigeon cloud that once darkened American skies for days — and rebuilds it: the world before, the kill mechanism, how the dying actually happened, who survived, and what the loss left behind.

From the five great mass extinctions to the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and the golden toad, Extinction is a field guide to the most permanent event in biology. Meticulously researched, honest about what is known and what is still argued, and clear about the difference between the fossil record and the story. Clean and suitable for all ages. A new extinction every week.