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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 .
The aftermath of this immense asteroid collision, which occurred approximately 66 million years ago, is believed to have caused the mass extinction of non-avian dinosaurs and many other species on Earth. [216] The impact spewed hundreds of billions of tons of sulfur into the atmosphere, producing a worldwide blackout and freezing temperatures ...
The analysis, which took 10 years to complete, allowed the team to piece together why dinosaurs came to prominence. These footprints belonged to a large theropod dinosaur at a fossil site in ...
A mass extinction event that brought about the rise of the dinosaurs more than 200 million years ago was believed to be caused by the planet’s warming. Now, scientists at Columbia University say ...
We knew that an asteroid heralded the end of the age of the dinosaurs. Now researchers say they have discovered a key element in their extinction Scientists believe they have finally uncovered ...
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.
Fine dust thrown up into Earth’s atmosphere after an asteroid strike 66 million years ago blocked the sun to an extent that plants were unable to photosynthesize, a new study has found.