{"id":469047,"date":"2026-05-27T05:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469047\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:55:10","slug":"story-of-dinosaur-killer-meteorite-impact-told-in-vivid-detail-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469047\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of dinosaur-killer meteorite impact told in vivid detail | Dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What would it have been like to have lived through the meteorite impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66m years ago? Writing in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-it-would-have-been-like-to-experience-the-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-armageddon-a-blow-by-blow-account-271786\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Conversation<\/a>, Michael Benton, of the University of Bristol, and Monica Grady, of the Open University, describe in vivid detail how it might have felt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The first sign that something was amiss would have been a new star visible for about a week before the event. Upon its arrival, all living creatures near the impact site would have seen the bright fireball, heard its crackling noise and experienced a sonic boom before being swiftly incinerated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Five minutes later, 100-metre-high mega tsunamis rolled across the Gulf of Mexico and, combined with the overheating, earthquakes, hurricanes and fires, wiped out everything within a 1,200-mile (2,000km) radius.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Dinosaurs roaming forests on the other side of the world were still oblivious, but not for long. Within an hour, dust had circled the planet and skies had darkened. Within a day, global temperatures were dropping, and by the end of the week the world was 5C cooler. A ferocious winter lasted for more than a decade, eliminating about 75% of all species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Our ancestors were some of the lucky survivors but, sadly, Benton and Grady suggest our penchant for burning carbon is setting the scene for a similar scale of planetary catastrophe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What would it have been like to have lived through the meteorite impact that wiped out the dinosaurs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-469047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}