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The Quetzalcoatlus hasn't
had a decent meal for days.
The asteroid has awakened
the ocean's most destructive force...
A Mega Tsunami.
A wall of water, 300 feet tall.
Within seconds,
the land is deluged.
And as quickly as it came,
The flood is gone.
But this is only one in an
amens army of mega-tsunami.
The asteroid impact
against
more than 13,000 miles of coast.
Huge wafts of shoreline
simply wash away into the sea.
countless dead in its wake.
But as devastating as
the first wave of disasters is,
there's more to come...
In the days following
the asteroid's arrival,
a series of plagues
have been unleashed on the planet.
Firestorms...
Earthquakes...
Sandstorms...
and towering tsunamis.
But these are only the outward
signs of a catastrophe
that reaches much deeper.
Across all continents,
thousands of dinosaurs
may be walking,
but their species are already dead.
Because to survive
a critical mass of population
Fall below
that threshold,
and there's no way to
climb back from certain extinction.
The final nail in the coffin
may take a while to develop,
but it's no less deadly,
and no less final.
The coup de grace
for the dinosaurs
comes from
inside the planet.
Because when a rock
slams into the Earth
at 45,000 miles/hour
it shoots 1,000,000
megaton of energy
straight into the ground.
Seismic shock waves
ripple through the planet.
The aftershocks
continue for months
As tectonic plates shear and tear.
Deep inside the planet,
force its way to the surface
through newly formed fractures...
until it explodes from
the earth's crust
in violent Volcanic Eruptions.
dormant Volcanoes
around the world,
adding to the debris clouds
of dust and toxic gases
that already surround the globe.
The shroud is already
many miles deep,
a thick blanket
stopping light
and warmth
reaching the earth surface.
into a nuclear winter.
In the days and weeks
that follow,
the only growth to
thrive is fungus
which lives off the rotting remains.
Here in Mongolia,
few signs of dinosaurs remain.
and for the starving Kronosauraus
But it stays near the cave
that has saved it twice
in the past.
The watering hole that once
provided plenty.
But the last Kronosaurus
doesn't fall victim to starvation.
Bubbling to the surface
is one of nature's
most toxic gases...
Hydrogen Sulfide.
Released from deep underground
by Volcanic activity,
it collects invisibly
in low lying areas
like the waterhole's natural basin
the gas paralyzes the lungs,
making escape impossible.
Then it kills by suffocation.
What was once a refuge...
is transformed
into a death trap.
The last dinosaur in this part
of Mongolia is dead.
Mexico, too
is a graveyard.
Just 500 miles
from ground zero
It's been hit by wave after wave
of devastation
There would seem to be little
that nature could throw at it.
And yet, amidst
all this destruction,
beneath the thin layer
of charged soil,
a lone Alamosaurus egg
survives.
In the Pacific Northwest,
just a handful of dinosaurs
patrol the gray wasteland.
An Ankylosaurus,
severely weakened by hunger,
searches the charred terrain
for something to eat.
and weighing 4 tons,
this heavily armored herbivore
is used to getting nearly
All it can find now
is a small bush.
And even that won't come
without a fight.
But hunger is the least
of their worries.
It's two of this world's
best armored warriors
versus a hungry Carnivore
that won't take no for an answer.
The Ankylosaurus's main
defense weapon
is a heavy tail club.
But it's too weak
to get in a good shot.
Not so T-Rex.
With food sources
disappearing,
starving giants are forced
Even to the death.
So the dinosaurs that outlast
the ejecta,
firestorms,
and poison gas
ultimately fall victim to the demands
It took 160 million years
to bring the dinosaurs
to this point of their evolution.
It took just one rock
to bring them down.
The events
triggered by the impact
flashed by a breakneck speed.
Seismic shocks caused
massive earthquakes
boulders the size of buildings
raining down
followed by a brutal
blast wave
all within the first 3 minutes.
By the time the super heated
Ejecta Cloud hit Mongolia
just 44 minutes later,
the whole planet
was in shock.
In the coming days,
forest fires race the earth.
Violent dust storms destroy
entire ecosystems.
Titanic waves
wreck coastlines.
Put all these together,
it is hard to believe
that anything on Earth
could have survived.
But something has.
Mexico, 500 miles
from the point of impact
the very first landmass
to feel the force
of the asteroid's strike...
a region that has suffered wave
upon wave of violence...
yet even here, even now,
life remains.
a last surviving
Alamosaurus egg.
Buried safe within the soil,
a chick has survived
the barrage of destruction.
And he's not alone.
All around the world,
small handfuls of dinosaurs
try to start over.
But inbreeding and disease,
weaken their
tiny populations.
Eventually,
the huge numbers of dinosaurs
that had ruled the world
are reduced to a single,
solitary dinosaur.
And it too, is gone.
And with it,
a dynasty that had
ruled the Earth
for 160 million years.
But dinosaurs weren't
the only animals on the planet.
There were other, humbler
lifeforms that had lived
in the dinosaurs' shadow
for a very long time.
When floods and
fire storms hit,
they found shelter on the ground.
Some hid deep inside
trees and plants.
Others took refuge
beneath the soil.
And small mammals,
like Mesodma,
survived by scampering into burrows.
Down here they were protected
from the worst the asteroid
could throw at them.
The earth would be inherited by
animals that were good at hiding.
Fish were sheltered
beneath the water.
So are the aquatic reptiles.
Birds, especially waterfowl,
could survive by diving underwater
or hiding in burrows.
It will be years before
all the Sun's energy
could reach the land again.
But the heavy cloud
slowly begins to clear.
In the Gulf of Mexico
where the asteroid struck,
a shallow crater
can be seen.
A tiny scar for such
a fatal wound.
Out of the ruins,
nature starts over.
Simple organisms like
mold and fungus dominate
the burnt
and rotting landscape.
Then new growth emerges,
and one plant in
particular...
Ferns...
Tough and resilient, they soon
carpet the planet in green,
It takes thousands of years for
ferns to give way to forests.
Breathing Oxygen
and life into the planet again,
and setting the stage
for a new era...
because waiting in the wings
are creatures
whose development
had long been thwarted
by the dinosaurs...
The mammals.
Unlike the dinosaurs,
the mammals are fast breeders,
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