Scientists have long researched the Chicxulub impact crater, which lies under the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico.
The crater was the result of a planet-altering impact some 66 million years ago.
We know that the immediate aftermath of the collision was devastating.
Recent research has shown that theoceans rapidly acidified and that Earth’s climate was greatly disrupted.
It ignitedtrees and plant life thousands of miles away.
To make a long story short: It was a bad day to be a dinosaur.
The team used a supercomputer and two tsunami models to assess just how humongous this might have been.
They found that, within two days, the ancient Earth’s coasts were being battered by humongous waves.
I reiterate: It was a bad day to be a dinosaur.
But computer modeling can only take you so far.
The impact had created such forceful undersea currents that the sediments were all jumbled and eroded.
That gave the team more confidence in the results.
As I understand it, they want to know more specifically how bad a day the dinosaurs had.
