TED Ed Video Explores the Most Devastating Asteroid to Hit Earth and What Really Killed the Dinosaurs
Who’s ready to learn!? I’ve got a fascinating video here for you to watch from TED Ed which explores the most devastating asteroid to hit Earth and how it ended up killing off the dinosaurs and causing mass extinction. There’s a lot of information packed into this video that you might not know, so it’s worth checking out!
Sixty-six million years ago, near what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula, a juvenile sauropod feasted on horsetail plants on a riverbank. Earth was a tropical planet. Behemoth and tiny dinosaurs alike soared its skies and roamed its lands while reptiles and tentacled ammonites swept its seas. But, in an instant, everything would change.
Dig into what happened after the Chicxulub asteroid hit the Earth, and how it caused a mass extinction— including dinosaurs.