What Was The Earth Like After Dinosaurs

Most people have heard the tale of the dinosaurs, and their tragic extinction at the hand of a massive meteor around 66 million years ago. Dinosaurs had existed on the planet for almost 200 million years at that point, so for them to die out all at once was a massive shift to the planet’s ecosystem. That was of course paired with the fact that the asteroid didn’t just kill off the dinosaurs; it killed off more than 75% of all life on Earth, causing a huge number of species to go extinct all at once.

The asteroid that struck the planet was approximately 10 kilometers wide, and hit in the Gulf of Mexico. It caused instantaneous destruction in the immediate vicinity, but the secondary effects of the impact resulted in the end of the Mesozoic Era, and the beginning of the Cenozoic Era. But what were those secondary effects, and how did they affect the way life developed right after the extinction of the dinosaurs? That’s what this video is going to dive into.