Dinosaur extinction. Artwork of the death of the dinosaurs after the Earth was struck by a comet or asteroid 65 million years ago. A Triceratops dinosaur skull lies in a landscape which has been burnt by the blast of the impact. Dark clouds of smoke and dust fill the sky,blocking the light & warmth of the Sun and providing a source for acid rain. The comet or asteroid struck the Earth at Chicxulub on the Yucatan peninsula,Mexico. This event,which may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and 70% of all species on Earth,is known as the "K/T impact" because debris from it forms a boundary in sediments between the Cretaceous (K) and Tertiary (T) geological periods | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Van Ravenswaay, Detlev |
Taille de l’image : | 2668 px × 3543 px |
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