What really killed the dinosaurs? (It wasn’t just the asteroid) 242,445 plays| Sean P. S. Gulick | TED-Ed • November 2023 Takeaways Share Save LikeRead transcript Sixty-six million years ago, near what’s
” Loeb says. “We are suggesting that, in fact, if you break up an object as it comes close to the sun, it could give rise to the appropriate event rate and also the kind of impact that killed the dinosaurs.”
years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years — got a nasty surprise: A roughly 9-mile-wide (15 kilometers) asteroid crashed into what is now Mexico, triggering tsunamis, wildfires and acid rain and causing vast amounts of debris to block out the sun...
Scientists are aiming to drill into the crater left by theasteroid that may have killed off the...Thompson, Ben
Now we know what the hours immediately after the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact were like. The impact forever altered the course of life on Earth.
An artist's depiction of the dinosaur-killing asteroid, which left a 124-mile-wide crater in the planet's surface. (Image credit: Andrzej Wojcicki via Getty Images) Hidden below the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the Chicxulub crater marks the impact site of an asteroid that struck Earth...
52-foot-high 'megaripples' from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs mapped deep beneath Louisiana in 3D "There is one magnitude scale that tends to work most of the time, and become kind of the standard that most people use now, and it'smoment magnitude," Wald said. ...
This most recent extinction, likely dealt by an asteroid collision that famously killed the dinosaurs, is best known but it was not the most deadly.Answer and Explanation: The End-Permian (or Permian-Triassic) mass extinction was considered Earth's worst extinction event, killing most life on ...
What animals went extinct in the Mesozoic era? What evolutionary event happened in the Triassic Period? Was the Triassic-Jurassic extinction caused by an asteroid impact? What species survived the K-T extinction? What kind of new organisms evolved after the Triassic extinction?
One of the greatest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the planet 66 million years ago and brought a calamitous end to the reign ...