Why did the dinosaurs go extinct?
Dinosaur's Last Day
Why did the dinosaurs go extinct?
For about 165 million years, dinosaurs ran the planet. They were the kings, the giants, the tiny feathered weirdos, the everything. And then, around 66 million years ago, almost all of them vanished. The big question is: what could possibly knock out the most successful animals Earth had ever seen?
The answer arrived from space. A chunk of rock — an asteroid roughly the size of a small mountain, maybe six miles across — was wandering through the solar system on a very unlucky path. It had no plan. It wasn't aiming at anyone. It was just falling, the way everything in space falls.
