Last Day of the Dinosaurs
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Our world was once a world
dominated by dinosaurs.
They drank the same water...
Breathed the same air...
And fought
on the same battlefields.
But then they faced the day
that none of us
can imagine...
Some of the
most critical hours
in the history of life on Earth.
This is the story of the day
their world ended...
the last day of the dinosaurs.
Earth
A warmer place
than it is today.
Along the west coast of
what's now North America,
mountains tower over
It's the domain of the ultimate form
of prehistoric evolution.
Dinosaurs.
And more than 350 pounds
with a wingspan of 40 feet,
Quetzalcoatlus is the largest
flying creature of all time.
A mile down,
a breakfast no carnivore
can not resist.
It will take this tiny hatchling
to become the most
fearsome predator.
But for now,
Tyrannosaurus Rex,
is just few inches tall,
not very scary
and completely exposed.
But... not completely unprotected.
The father, a fully grown T-Rex
is on a hunt.
helps him sniff out prey
from great distances,
and it also serves him well
as a parent.
He knows when something is wrong.
Quetzalcoatlus' metabolism
demands that it eat regularly.
and powering this streamline body
means finding
rich sources of protein,
like a 3 pound baby T-Rex.
Quetzalcoatlus' huge wings
are perfectly adapted
for long distance gliding.
But its sheer size
makes it hard to lift off
when it's backed into a corner.
It's lucky...
this time.
Of the entire clutch
of T-Rex eggs,
only one chick survived.
And if it grows up,
it will grow to be 17 feet tall
and weigh more than 7 tons.
But surviving
to adulthood,
even for
Tyrannosaurus Rex
isn't written in stone.
Because a storm is coming.
Born of events
that took place long before.
This is the asteroid belt
between Mars and Jupiter.
Billions of rocks
in the same direction,
like traffic
on a freeway.
All,
except this one.
which is moving diagonally
on a completely different course.
It's like a 40 mile wide semi
suddenly slicing
across the highway.
But this truck
is going 22,000 miles an hour.
The two asteroids shattered
into millions of fragments.
But this fragment
over 6 miles across,
has a special destiny.
It's a rock
poised to change history.
Because it's heading
in the solar system.
The only planet
known to harbor life.
Planet Earth.
Meanwhile, the planet's
reptilian lords live
completely unaware of
Triceratops are among
the most widespread
dinosaurs on the
North American continent.
They're herbivores, but that
doesn't mean they're wallflowers.
Male Triceratops
very seriously...!
And weighing 6 tons each,
a face off can be fatal.
This time,
intimidation does the trick.
But there's another
enemy waiting in the wings.
He's not after
mating rights.
The Triceratops is fast
and well-armed enough
to stand a chance
against T-Rex...
...but not against two of them.
Hunting as a pair
one T-Rex go get
behind the deadly horns
and armored core.
There's enough meat here
to feed them both for weeks,
but they may not have
the time to enjoy it.
A quarter of million miles up,
is the earth's last hope of defense.
The Moon has saved
the planet before.
Its pockmarked surface
bears the scars of
countless collisions.
This crater
known as Tycho,
is more than 50 miles wide.
Created by a rock
only half the size of the one
that's on its way.
But the moon is rarely
in the right place,
at the right time.
Nothing can stop
the asteroid now.
as alien as it seems.
Like the earth itself,
It's made up largely of rock
and water.
In the cold vacuum of space
a hard permafrost.
But on the inside,
there's a chemical cocktail
composed of carbon,
hydrogen and oxygen.
Key ingredients for life.
Asteroid fragments like this one
may have provide the building blocks
for life on Earth.
Life, it evolved into dinosaurs.
But what gives life,
can also take it away.
THE PACIFIC NORTHWES
Most
dinosaurs in the valley
hunt and forage during the day
and sleep at night.
This giant herbivore,
an Ankylosaurus
keeps one eye open
for predators.
Under the cover of darkness,
very different creatures
emerge from their hiding places.
Like Mesodma,
a primitive mammal
about the size of a possums.
like most other mammals,
Mesodma's life
the dinosaurs earth.
It only comes out at night,
to forage for tasty roots and insects.
While the giants sleep,
It's the meek that
witness a cosmic event.
A meteor shower.
Each streak of light
is a tiny fragment
of the asteroid collision.
Burning up
as it entered the atmosphere.
of the much larger missile
hurdling through space.
a head-on collision.
The Day of Reckoning is here.
After a journey
last in a hundred million years,
an enormous chunk of cosmic rock
is approaching
the end of the line.
And the end of the line
is Earth.
In what is today
Central Mexico,
a herd of Alamosaurus,
is wandering the plains
in search of food.
They're recent species to evolve.
And even by dinosaur standards,
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