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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]
Alternatively, interpretation based on the fossil-bearing rocks along the Red Deer River in Alberta, Canada, supports the gradual extinction of non-avian dinosaurs; during the last 10 million years of the Cretaceous layers there, the number of dinosaur species seems to have decreased from about 45 to approximately 12. Other scientists have made ...
"A New Timeline of the Day the Dinosaurs Began to Die Out – By drilling into the Chicxulub crater, scientists assembled a record of what happened just after the asteroid impact". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 25, 2019
The image shows the skeletons of tyrannosaurs partially buried in the middle of what has become a desert after the impact of a large asteroid in present-day Mexico. (Getty Images) A remarkable ...
The age of the dinosaurs ended 66 million years ago when a city-size asteroid struck a shallow sea off the coast of what is now Mexico. ... Other fossils found there show how the disastrous day ...
Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is modern day Mexico. ... "So the one that killed the dinosaurs is really special in two ways — by what it ...
The first known dinosaur fossil linked to the very day of the Chicxulub impact studied by paleontologists at the Tanis site in North Dakota is reported, [158] with the first reports about the site being from 2019. [159] [160] [161] Conceptual model of the impact sequence at the Nadir impact site, based on seismic observations and analog models ...
Luis Walter Alvarez, left, and his son Walter, right, at the K–T Boundary in Gubbio, Italy, 1981. The Alvarez hypothesis posits that the mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was caused by the impact of a large asteroid on the Earth.