The end of the dinosaurs was a time of cataclysmic destruction. Whether this period was brought on by one or more meteor strikes, by vast volcanic eruptions, by disease, or by a combination of factors, within a relatively short period of time, geologically speaking, dinosaurs were gone.
Karen's depiction of the K/T boundary event, as this period of time is called, shows the view from what is now New Mexico. Huge fires destroyed forests and many animals... many, but not all. At the lower left-hand corner of this image, small Cretaceous mammal-like creatures are investigating the once-fearsome predator. |