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Last Day of the Dinosaurs is a 2010 Discovery Channel television documentary about the K-T extinction, which resulted in the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. [1] It portrays the Alvarez hypothesis as the cause of extinction. The documentary was released on August 28, 2010 and narrated by Bill Mondy. [2]
Years before the final day of the dinosaurs, gravitational interactions with Jupiter dislodge the asteroid which will become the Chicxulub impactor from its orbit, sending it on a course for Earth. On a spring morning, 66 million years ago, Tanis was a sandbank on the edge of a river near the Western Interior Seaway.
Life on Our Planet is an American television nature documentary series released on Netflix and produced by Amblin Television and Silverback Films.Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by Morgan Freeman, the series focuses on the evolutionary history of complex life on Earth.
The amount of dust strangling the atmosphere is thought to have been about 2,000 gigatonnes; more than 11 times the weight of Mount Everest. Researchers ran simulations on sediment found at a ...
Last Day of the Dinosaurs: 2010: United States: Documentary: The Last Dinosaur: 1977: Japan, United States [citation needed] The Last Dragon: 2004: United Kingdom [citation needed] The Last Sharknado: It's About Time: 2018: United States: Sharknado Franchise [50] Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds: 1977: Japan [citation needed] Loch Ness: 1996 ...
In a study published by Chiarenza et al. (2020) [144] [145] the two main hypotheses for the mass extinction (the Deccan Traps and the Chicxulub impact) were evaluated using Earth System and Ecologial modelling, confirming that the asteroid impact was the main driver of this extinction while the volcanism might have boosted the recovery instead.
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs is a 2022 popular paleontology book by science writer Riley Black. [1] Beginning just before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event , Black's book focuses on the aftermath of the asteroid impact and the way that life came back in the million years following the death of the dinosaurs.
For 150 million years, non-avian dinosaurs dominated the Earth. Then, 65 million years ago, they suddenly vanished, along with a great deal of the planet's animal and plant life. NOVA examines a remarkable theory about the cause of the catastrophe—in which the first clue to the solution was a piece of clay.