Experience the Disaster that Wiped Out Dinosaurs

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Published 2016-07-29
When the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth, most of the impact energy was directed outwards and upwards into space. Only 1% of the force traveled down into the ground, but it was enough to ring the planet like a bell and wipeout species around the globe. Only those creatures able to seek shelter from the intense heat on the surface survived.

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All Comments (21)
  • @osta1550
    Cockroach: i dont need shelter, i need to watch them die
  • @cires2849
    What amazes me is how life eventually found a way to balance itself out. Despite such a monumental event and against all odds, life eventually built itself back up. It blows my mind.
  • It must have been too scary, imagine you're a dinosaur living peacefully and out of nowhere a smoke accompanied by a giant explosion comes towards you quickly, it gives me chills.
  • @kanyk7171
    Can’t even imagine the fear they felt
  • must've been scary when they started playing that dramatic music for them
  • @intreoo
    The fact that 1% of the energy was enough to cause a magnitude 11 earthquake thousands of miles away from the impact zone is absolutely terrifying. Imagine just how powerful the remaining 99% must have been if 1% was enough to cause that much damage...
  • @as-ep7ev
    it is pleasant to imagine how this world was for millions of years. Silent, green, wild. Everything happened at an almost still pace.
  • @BangMaster96
    Cockroaches are going to outlive us all. They already survived through this hell hole of a meteor strike
  • @gmmg8734
    As weird as it sounds, we owe our very existence to this disaster. This was our blessing in disguise.
  • @Goopie48
    My grandfather told me about this day. He was playing WoW on his PC, then heard a big BANG. He looked out his window to see the dinos in his yard dying. Very sad day overall
  • Dinosaurs: minding their own business Asteroid: imma end this globe's career
  • @sploofa6980
    I've never felt so bad for something that would eat me in one bite
  • @Gamerloaders
    This should make us humans respect those prehistoric wildlife and nature more, the sheer struggle to survive the mass extinction is mind numbing...Man, this brought tears to eyes
  • @xKynthiax2
    This is actually heartbreaking for me... in my my mind from a young age was like: "Yeah a meteor killed all the dinos... ok" but now after seeing these videos I can fully understand it and feel the pain and fear. 🥺🥺🥺
  • @juliopena98
    No phones in sight, just plain having a good time
  • @ghostt2085
    Bro this is so depressing, Imagine how much all of those creatures suffered
  • The weird part of this is how delicate the surface, atmosphere, and environment of our planet truly are. 9-11 kilometers, or about as big as Everest. That’s all it took to drastically change the history of the planet and alter it’s surface for countless generations. That’s like a grain of sand striking a person of average height. Not exactly a traumatic experience for most of us. But transfer that correlation to planetary scale and the collision becomes transformational.