We Finally Know How the Dinosaurs Died. It Was Worse Than We Thought (Sabine Hossenfelder)

66 million years ago an asteroid hit Earth and the dinosaurs died. The story we usually tell is that the impact dimmed the sun, plants died, food chains collapsed, and everything starved over years. A new calculation says something much faster and much worse happened first. Let's take a look.



They were severely fried in a firestorm, croaking within hours, and then the survivors froze/starved.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, September 20, 2026.]