
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
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- 2017
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Once upon a time, dinosaurs
ruled the world.
they vanished, virtually overnight.
So what precisely happened in the
minutes, the days, the weeks
that wiped out three-quarters of
the animal species on the planet?
Many scientists now believe it
was the impact of an asteroid
But nobody has been able to prove it...
until now.
Evolutionary biologist Ben
Garrod and I have been granted
exclusive access to a
multi-million-pound drilling mission
into the exact point
where the asteroid hit.
This really is one of the most
impressive science laboratories
I've ever seen.
Could the team's findings
about the asteroid
finally solve the ultimate
dinosaur mystery?
This is an absolutely amazing event -
mountains the size of the
Himalayas were formed in seconds.
With Ben at the impact site,
I will be traveling across the world
to look for evidence of
the events that followed.
That is a bit of fossilized bone,
and they're everywhere,
scattered across this hillside.
It's just extraordinary.
Armed with astonishing new revelations...
Right here, we have the smoking
gun, and here, we have the bodies.
We may finally be
able to paint a picture
of the demise of the dinosaurs.
I'm off the coast of Mexico right now
and this thing you can see behind me
is a specially adapted drilling platform.
Now, there's an international
team of scientists on board
who are drilling far beneath
to look for evidence to see why
and how the dinosaurs died.
This is the exact spot of
a huge asteroid strike
that happened at precisely the same
time the dinosaurs were wiped out.
This is Earth, 66 million years ago.
Here's the asteroid.
It's nine miles across
the size of a city.
And here's the first surprising thing -
the speed of it.
It may not look that fast at this scale,
but it was traveling an
unbelievable 40,000 miles an hour.
Seen from the ground,
it would have gone from a
mere dot in the sky to impact
in a matter of seconds.
The asteroid smashed into a shallow sea
north of modern-day Mexico,
exactly where the team
is starting to drill.
The theory goes that this impact
set off a chain reaction of events
that killed the dinosaurs.
But here's the heart of the mystery...
When you compare the size of
the asteroid and the Earth,
well, the asteroid is comparatively small.
It's like a grain of sand
hitting a bowling ball.
So how did this asteroid
cause a mass extinction
all around the globe?
By extracting rock from the impact crater,
the team hopes to find out.
So, I'm not even strapped in, and
I don't especially like heights!
But this is great, this is great.
This multi-million-pound operation
has been decades in the planning
and we're the only film
crew to have access.
proposed the operation.
It's been a long wait.
I've been excited for, you know,
16 years, so to actually...
For it to be happening
is quite scary.
We've had so much effort between
us to get us to this point
that... that you really
want some lovely results.
Joining her on board to
co-direct operations
is Professor Sean Gulick.
So, this is the ultimate
test of some ideas, right?
We have all these models about
how the extinction happened,
but without some samples from ground zero,
we can't really test them.
This really is one of the most
impressive science laboratories
I've ever seen, and it's an amazing place -
we're going to have a quick look around.
This central area here
is incredibly important.
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