"The American Museum of Natural History is re-staging one of the greatest plot twists in the history of Earth-and it involves a killer asteroid, a global winter and a few very unlucky dinosaurs. Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs opens to the public today, November 17, dropping visitors into the moments before, during and after the massive collision 66 million years ago that erased 75% of all species-and eventually cleared the way for mammals (and us) to show up."
""What makes this exhibition so exciting is how much of the story we can now tell through science," said Roger Benson, lead curator of the exhibition and the Macaulay Curator of Dinosaur Paleobiology in the Museum's Division of Paleontology, in an official statement. "Advances in paleontology and geochemistry have given us an unprecedented look at what happened before, during and after the asteroid hit-including how ecosystems collapsed, adapted and ultimately flourished again.""
The American Museum of Natural History opens Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs, immersing visitors in the moments before, during and after the asteroid collision 66 million years ago. Life-size models and dioramas include an 18-foot Triceratops, a 27-foot mosasaur and an early mammal. A six-minute panoramic video visualizes the asteroid striking the Yucatan Peninsula at more than 40,000 miles per hour, releasing billions-of-nuclear-weapons-level energy. The exhibition guides visitors through earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires, a dust-choked sky and temperature drops of about 45 degrees as Earth remained dark for over a year. The event erased about 75% of species and ultimately allowed mammals to flourish.
Read at Time Out New York
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