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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 ...
A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...
The researchers said that of all the cosmic bodies they have studied that struck Earth in the last 500 million years, only the one that exterminated the dinosaurs was a water-rich asteroid.
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.
The film's estimation is off by a couple million years both in its extinction date and its oldest dinosaur fossil date. Dinosaurs the Terrible Lizards says that the oldest dinosaur fossils were about 225 million years old, as of 2024 a 233 million year old [1] dinosaur fossil was found in Brazil.
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