Through cutting-edge CGI and stunning 3D environments, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs reveals a world tortured by a series of catastrophic events after a meteorite bigger than Mount Everest smashes into Central America, bringing about irreversible change. Dinosaurs caught in the forests of North America, the lost wilderness of Mongolia and the lush landscape of Mexico suffer a sequence of so-called ‘death mechanisms’ that together lead to the animals’ inevitable destruction and threaten the very existence of life on Earth.
In a two-hour special for Discovery, the show harnesses the latest research from the world’s leading experts in presenting blow-by-blow revelations of what happened 65 million years ago. A planet-shaking impact that ‘rings the Earth like a bell’ triggers a fireball big enough to break through the atmosphere, followed by seismic waves deep enough to wrap around the globe. In a captivating account of the timetable of destruction, here is a portrayal of the red-hot cloud that grills animals on every continent, here’s a taste of the ‘nuclear winter’ that leads to a collapse in food chains and here is the a-z explanation of why today there aren’t many dinosaurs in your back garden.
From start to finish, uninterrupted CGI action breathes fresh life into one of the biggest fatal catastrophes ever to strike the Earth.
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