Remains Found In The Crater That Killed The Dinosaurs Parallel Bible Story

Can you imagine a world with dinosaurs in it? Perhaps humans and dinosaurs would be able to live in harmony. We could exchange food and perhaps even use them as transportation. Who knows what it could be like? The possibilities are endless! No one really knows what it would be like.

But thanks to science, we are able to imagine a world filled with humans and dinosaurs. Could they be friendly, or perhaps a lot more dangerous than we think?

Famous Crater

The Chicxulub crater is situated on the northern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and is over 66 million years old. The massive crater is about 12 miles deep.

Joanna Morgan was a professor at Imperial College in London and around the time she got involved, it was believed that dinosaurs died due to an asteroid hitting the earth and landing in Mexico.

But the true size of the Chicxulub crater is still debated to this day. But it is a fact that something massive hit the earth and created a carter as big as our moon. A surprising fact is that scientists are more afraid of the size than they are of the destruction it caused.

Clearer Picture

Morgan began her study on the crater in 1996 and it was the first of its kind. Desperate to have a clearer picture of the crater, Morgan had her team tow a huge air gun behind the research vessel. They used it to blast the seafloor with seismic waves that bounced back.

This revealed a lot about the crater.

The research was more concerned with the size of the crater, rather than its impact on the earth and how it changed everything.

Into Perspective

Experts have determined that the asteroid was about 6.8 to 50.3 in diameter and that it smashed into the earth at this very spot. The crater’s diameter appears to be about 93 miles.

To put this into perspective, it is only 1.6 miles shorter than the drive from Philadelphia to New York. Although scientists have shared a lot of information on the crater, they have never revealed whether or not the stones had diamonds inside of them.

Its Energy

When calculating the strength of the asteroid when it hit the earth, it was estimated that it had 21 to 921 billion times the amount of energy that the famous atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima in World War II did.

This means that the impact would’ve destroyed everything in a split second. The dinosaurs had no chance, but lucky, it happened so fast that they didn’t feel a thing. They probably only saw a flash of light followed by complete silence.