66 million years ago, Earth experienced an unprecedented cataclysmic event when an asteroid the size of Mount Everest hurtled towards Earth. The impact dealt an incomparable blow to the dinosaurs, after which they slowly began to die out. The impact even triggered the largest tsunami ever recorded on Earth, and let’s find out what happened at the time of the dinosaurs.

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was terrifying. It has a diameter of 10 km and is extremely fast, with a speed of 10-30km/s. As it approached Earth, the asteroid turned into a fiery ball of fire, and the air in front of the asteroid was compressed and heated to unimaginable temperatures. Before hitting Earth, the asteroid may have reached the temperature of the Sun’s surface. Immediately after, the asteroid entered our atmosphere, taking just a few seconds to reach the Earth’s surface and change the course of life forever.

When the asteroid reached Earth, near what is now the coast of Mexico, a large number of pieces of the asteroid were thrown into the air. The huge wave of explosions instantly kills all living things in its path, and it gets worse and worse. The powerful explosion spewed debris from the Earth’s surface into the atmosphere and, minutes later, rained down hot glass and rock. Some of the debris reacted with the atmosphere, causing acid rain for years. The entire continent was in flames, and the fires spread across the continent, killing more lives along the way.

The impact of the asteroid was so strong that it created a shock wave that triggered a huge tsunami. The tsunami was 10 meters high and hurtling through the ocean. This was not a normal tsunami that we see today, it was a disaster that was three thousand times stronger than anything you see today. As this massive wave spread across the North Atlantic and South Pacific, the coastlines couldn’t withstand it, so much so that it destroyed and reshaped the continents.

If you had been there to witness this apocalyptic destruction, you might not have survived. But some dinosaurs did. Yes, those dinosaurs farther from the center of the explosion were not immediately wiped out by the impact. They were not killed by the ensuing fire and managed to avoid the huge tsunami. However, their fate remains sealed.

When the dust begins to settle, a large amount of debris in the air blocks sunlight, possibly for months or even years. The earth suddenly became a cold, dark place for which the dinosaurs were unprepared.

As temperatures dropped and fires released large amounts of greenhouse gases, the climate changed dramatically. The plants could not photosynthesize and most began to die. The food chain was disrupted, starving many of the animals that survived the impact. After years of acid rain, most Marine species became extinct because they could not adapt to the acidification of the ocean.

These persistent harsh conditions, combined with the initial explosion, wiped out about 75% of life on Earth. When the last dinosaur took his last breath, the earth became an empty place. After that, the Earth reinvented itself.

A thousand years later, the Earth is recovering from a post-apocalyptic winter. Although it is still cold and food is still scarce, life is ready to rise again. In this new wilderness world, some small furry animals are running around. Of the plants that first appeared after the impact, ferns did remarkably well after the disaster.

After 100,000 years, the Earth began to become more active. Creatures the size of raccoons began to repopulate the continents, and the oceans teeming with life again. Fast forward about 10 million years and the Earth has finally restored its biodiversity, only it’s no longer the Earth it used to be, it’s now the age of mammals.

After the dinosaurs disappeared, mammals began to rise. In the time that followed, mammals, birds and plants began to dominate the planet. The earth has never returned to its old form. After the last dinosaur died, the Earth recovered in a new way after millions of years of change.

QUSTION: Interesting knowledge! Can you reconstruct the extinction scenes of the dinosaurs?

ANSWER: That’s a huge range. We can reconstruct some scenes in detail; For example, dinosaurs fell into swamps, bones covered the path of dinosaur migration, and carnivorous dinosaurs died due to lack of food, etc. These scenes belong to our dinosaur theme decoration / landscape.

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