Dinosaur 'graveyard' discovery reveals what happened after asteroid hit Earth

First came a terrifying earthquake, before red-hot balls of glass fell from the sky and a huge tsunami delivered the killing blow to any living thing which miraculously survived this onslaught.

Scientists have revealed terrifying new details of what happened on the day a gigantic asteroid hit Earth and caused a mass extinction which destroyed the dinosaurs.

Researchers discovered ‘smoking-gun evidence’ of dino-doomsday after uncovering ‘killing fields’ containing the bodies of fish, insects, mammals and even a triceratops whose last moments came just after the asteroid ploughed into the ground.

Until now, the true horror of the moments after this cataclysm have remained lost in time, because we’ve never actually managed to find a ‘death bed’ containing the remnants of anything killed in the ancient apocalypse.

This bombardment is also believed to have sparked wildfires around the world.

‘You can imagine standing there being pelted by these glass spherules. They could have killed you,’ said Mark Richards, a University of California professor emeritus of earth and planetary science who worked on the research.

Tsunami waves then washed over the world, burying and preserving the remains of creatures killed after the impact.

The asteroid apocalypse spread death across a radius of thousands of miles in the moments after the space rock hit but threw up so much dust and debris into the air that it blocked out the sun and probably caused the demise of the dinosaurs.

This is known as The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event or the K–Pg boundary. It happened 66 million years ago and led to a mass extinction which destroyed 75% of life on Earth.

‘This is the first mass death assemblage of large organisms anyone has found associated with the K-T boundary,’ DePalma added.

‘At no other K-T boundary section on Earth can you find such a collection consisting of a large number of species representing different ages of organisms and different stages of life, all of which died at the same time, on the same day.’

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