The most devastating asteroid to hit Earth - Sean P. S. Gulick

Dig into what happened after the Chicxulub asteroid hit the Earth, and how it caused a mass extinction- including dinosaurs.
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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. Sean P. S. Gulick details one of Earth's most devastating periods.
Lesson by Sean P. S. Gulick, directed by Jeff Le Bars, JetPropulsion.space
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Grass - Hundankbar
garbage - ds_30
Iceberg - Makabera
Polar bear - iribagrova8176
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Carnotaurus - Magorius
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Rigsters
Temple - Maks Sokolowski
Human skeleton - Ruslan Gadzhiev
Mouse - Just8
Saberwing - MooreLab
Frog - ffish.asia / florazia.com
Rhododendron - ffish.asia / florazia.com
Tsukushi Rose - ffish.asia / florazia.com
Orchid - sarahGB
Wood stick - 3dhdscan
Wood louse - .hapto GmbH
Bush - Marbles
Lichen - Frank McMains
Aloa Vera - nedo
Lab - viklia
Lab gear - dercruz926
VHS - Terrible Hard
Old computers - sudreyskr
Lab machine - guillemvilah
Floppy disk - ocean
Machine - Klinepeter
Mission control console - TheoClarke
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Old nuclear computer - P3TroV
Osborne - Denis Afanasjev
vintage terminal - NoMoreFeelings
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Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh
The Great Wave - Katsushika Hokusaï
Eiffel Tower - Georges Seurat
Black Mesa - Georgia O'Keeffe
Guernica - Pablo Picasso
Skrik & Solen - Edvard Munch
The Great Day of His Wrath - John Martin
The Slave Ship - William Turner

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Too bad the content is so cringeworthy. 🤷

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@@DegreesOfThreeWhat?

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the sauropod design at the very beginning looks terrible, I don't know what you're talking about.

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A hummingbird as a guide, Aztec symbol, and a living dinosaur.

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Birds aren’t dinosaurs, there were flying dinosaurs but not all birds are dinosaurs, just like humans aren’t monkeys.

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​@BigattckFirecat Birds are dinosaurs in the same way that humans are apes. Humans are not monkeys, but we are apes. When you say "there were flying dinosaurs", I assume you must be referring to pterosaurs. Pterosaurs were not actually dinosaurs, but another group of reptiles. Birds are the only flying dinosaurs to have existed.

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@@jonahs92 Well technically flight evolved multiple times in dinosaurs, with some like Microraptor even being able to launch from the ground.

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@carlosalbuquerque22 Ah, you are correct. It's been a while since I've studied up on dinosaurs, my expertise is mainly in turtles! My apologies.

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Just a few days back i have been searching for some information about the big asteroid, right on time!

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I needed to watch this video twice. The first was to enjoy the visual, the second was to keep ears open for the devastating story.

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Touching, realistic and meaningful

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I was able to visualize how the world would have looked like during the times of Chicxulub, because of the simple, yet excellent video!

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😉

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