What lives and what dies?
Francis Gooding: The End-Cretaceous Event, 3 January 2019
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World
by Steve Brusatte.
Macmillan, 404 pp., £20, May 2018,978 1 5098 3006 0 Show More
by Steve Brusatte.
Macmillan, 404 pp., £20, May 2018,
“... It was a bad time to be alive,’ Steve Brusatte tells us. A comet or asteroid about six miles across had just collided with the Earth, in the area we know as the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The speed of its arrival compressed the atmosphere ahead of it with such force that air temperatures became hotter than the surface of the sun; the energy released on impact was equivalent to a billion atomic bombs ... ”
