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Season 44 · Episode 28
Landed Wed, 27 Dec 2017 · 21:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 44, Episode 28 of NOVA aired Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 9pm ET on PBS.
- S44E28Day the Dinosaurs DiedA seven-mile-wide asteroid collided with Earth 66 million years ago, triggering a chain of events that coincide with the end of the dinosaurs. But experts have long debated exactly what happened when the asteroid struck and how the giant beasts met their end. Now, scientists have uncovered compelling new clues about the catastrophe—from New Jersey to the wilds of Patagonia—and an international expedition of scientists has drilled into the impact crater off the coast of Mexico, recovering crucial direct evidence of the searing energy and giant tsunami unleashed by the asteroid. Join NOVA as scientists piece together a chillingly precise unfolding of the Earth's biggest cataclysm, moment by moment, and discover how our early mammalian ancestors managed to survive and repopulate the Earth.
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