Aftermath of the Asteroid Impact that Killed the Dinosaurs

I'm getting old… when I was a kid I learned that this extinction event had happened 65 million years ago, and now it's 66 million 😕

You could say it killed many birds with one stone.

I was there. It was soul-crushing, devastating, but somewhere deep down I felt relieved.

the impact of that asteroid was so massive that our minds can't even grasp what actually happened. We just cope with "yeah, everything went terribly wrong very quick" while recreating a couple minutes of animation to help us better visualize how it was back then

It's channels like this which is why I don't watch TV. Brilliant!

My head canon for this story is that the aliens got bored so they lobbed a big rock at the planet they were watching just to see what would happen, like a person playing Universe Sandbox.

The only thing that has changed for the dragonfly in the last 300 million years is their size. They used to be massive, but their structure and proportions are still exactly the same as their fossils. A system that wires their flight controls directly to their eyes doesn't need change. It's why they have the highest strike-kill ratio in all of earth's history. It's like their muscles can see the food in their airspace and instantly do the math required to eat it. Impressive that they made it through every catastrophic event over such a vast amount out time.

I strongly suspect these alien scientists would have known exactly that the event was going to occur and wouldn't have dared missed observing it either.

I think it was both an asteroid AND volcanic activities. I watched a video (Demolition Ranch) where he shot a large solid glass ball with guns. One bullet hit the ball on the front, causing a nice crater. Then they noticed on the other side of the ball, exactly opposite the bullet crater, a small roughly circular area of cracks. The interveving areas of glass were unaffected. It was like a shock wave went around the glass and focused on the opposite side, magnifying their power to cause the cracking. I think the same thing happened to earth when the asteroid hit, causing the traps volcanism.

This is what the history channel should be

My 3 year old daughter is your biggest fan. She does not miss even single episode of yours.

Awesome job as always Alex! While I am sad as a fan of dinosaurs it’s probably for the best because otherwise humanity wouldn’t have emerged as it has

I can't help but watch these videos with child like fascination. I keep catching my face striking these silly expressions that only stuff like this could manifest. Your worlds are a wonderful place to escape to, Alex.

Excellent video Astrum as always and Alex I could listen to your dulcet tones allday! you're a fabulous narrator!

i was there. im the camera man

Fascinating how much has been discovered about dinosaurs since I was a kid watching long necks wade in water pools in the land before time. Littlefoots moms death scene still hits me like an asteroid.

To be fair, if the aliens visited Earth the day before the asteroid impact then there is no way they would not have noticed said asteroid bearing down on the planet from only one day out.

What a great episode!

Well done! Great episode!

this was amazing, thanks for this!