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15 April 2022. (2022-04-15) Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough (titled Dinosaur Apocalypse in the U.S.) is a British documentary programme that aired on BBC One on 15 April 2022. Presented by David Attenborough, the documentary follows the final days of non-avian dinosaurs through the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the K–T extinction, [b] was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth [2][3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
Extinctions in northern Eurasia were staggered over tens of thousands of years between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, [2] while extinctions in the Americas were virtually simultaneous, spanning only 3000 years at most. [4][8] Overall, during the Late Pleistocene about 65% of all megafaunal species worldwide became extinct, [9] rising to 72% in ...
While the dinosaurs met their end around 66 million years ago in a catastrophic way, their extinction may have been crucial to the development of the human race.
John M. Cys argued that dinosaurs went extinct because they were unable to hibernate during the winter, leaving them doomed by Earth's changing climate. [23] 1968. Daniel I. Axelrod and Harry Paul Bailey proposed that the dinosaurs were driven extinct when Earth's climate began exhibiting more marked seasons rather than stable conditions year ...
Release. 24 January 2016. (2016-01-24) Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur (also known as Raising the Dinosaur Giant) is a 2016 British nature documentary programme made for BBC Television, first shown in the UK on BBC One on 24 January 2016, [1] and in the US on 17 February 2016 on PBS. [2] The programme is presented and narrated by Sir David ...
Well-preserved fossils of ancient large reptiles called pterosaurs have revealed that some species flew by flapping their wings, while others soared like vultures, according to a new study ...
An international team found dinosaurs had been evolving and expanding, but showed a sudden downturn around 76 million years ago. Dinosaurs were in decline up to 10 million years before asteroid ...