00:00One ordinary day, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
00:03Then the sky exploded.
00:05Around 66 million years ago,
00:08a massive asteroid roughly 10 kilometers wide
00:10raced toward Earth at incredible speed.
00:14Its target was the Yucatan Peninsula in present-day Mexico.
00:18The impact unleashed unimaginable energy.
00:21Oceans surged, forests burned, earthquakes shook the planet,
00:25and debris blasted high into the atmosphere.
00:27Then came the real killer.
00:30Dust and sulfur blocked sunlight for months, possibly years.
00:35Temperatures dropped, plants died, food chains collapsed,
00:38and the dinosaurs began to disappear.
00:40But life didn't end.
00:42Small mammals, birds, insects, and other survivors endured the darkness.
00:46And from that catastrophe, a completely new world eventually emerged.
00:51The asteroid didn't just end the age of dinosaurs,
00:54it helped create the world that would one day lead to us.
