If that asteroid had been 30 seconds late, dinosaurs might rule the world and humans probably wouldn’t exist

The meek inherited the Earth instead.

are cool and all, it just might have been nice to have some little raptors running around instead of chickens. They were about the same size anyway, so they couldn’t reach the doorknobs if we put them a little higher. These new findings came to light in a BBC documentary,, featuring the scientists who have been drilling into the underwater crater.

So, assuming that in fact there was one big impact that killed off most dinosaurs, the meteor responsible hit near the Yucatan Peninsula, where it was free to kick up dust from vaporized rock and sulfur dioxide. Sure, plenty ofdied from the explosive force of the asteroid hurtling towards them—it was equivalent to about ten billion Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs—but lots of them died later, too.

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