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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 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.
Uniquely, Tanis appears to record in detail, extensive evidence of the direct effects of the giant Chicxulub asteroid impact which struck the Gulf of Mexico 66.043 million years ago, and wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and many other species (the so-called "K–Pg" or "K–T" extinction).
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 ...
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.
Dino Crisis [a] is a survival horror and action-adventure video game series created by Shinji Mikami and developed and published by Capcom. The plot focuses on recurring outbreaks of deadly dinosaurs in closed environments, such as a laboratory on an island. The series also includes comic books and merchandise.
Nanosaur is a science fiction third-person shooter video game developed by Pangea Software and published by Ideas From the Deep for Mac OS 9 and Microsoft Windows.The player takes on the form of a Nanosaur, a genetically engineered intelligent dinosaur from the future, sent back in time just prior to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.