How to Survive an Asteroid (A Crocodile's Guide)

66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide rock hit Mexico and three quarters of all species on Earth vanished. Crocodiles were there, and we made it. So Snappette the crocodile hosts the only survival guide written by an actual survivor. Minute by minute: the impact, the sky that turned into an oven, the mile-high tsunami and the years of darkness. Then how humans found the bodies, the evidence in the rocks, a second suspect in India, who survived and why, and the dinosaurs that never left. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 Welcome, Survivors 0:32 The Worst Day Ever (impact, firestorm, mile-high tsunami) 2:15 Lights Out (impact winter, food chain collapse) 3:14 Who Named the Monsters? (Plot, Buckland, the Mantells, Owen, Crystal Palace) 5:10 The Evidence (K-Pg boundary, iridium, Chicxulub crater, shocked quartz) 6:44 The Second Suspect (the Deccan Traps) 7:54 Who Survived (mammals, turtles, crocodiles, ground birds) 9:06 Dinosaurs Never Left (birds are dinosaurs, T. rex might have cooed) 🔎 In this video • Why fish fossils from Tanis, North Dakota, say the asteroid hit in spring • The steep ~60° impact angle and the mile-high first tsunami wave (2020 and 2022 simulations) • Robert Plot's "giant human" thigh bone (1677) and Megalosaurus, the first named dinosaur (1824) • Mary Ann Mantell's teeth, Iguanodon's thumb on its nose, and a dinner party inside a dinosaur (1853) • Luis & Walter Alvarez, the iridium layer at Gubbio, and the buried Chicxulub crater • The Deccan Traps: lava staircases more than a mile thick • Why crocodiles survived: rivers that run on dead leaves, and months without eating • Birds are dinosaurs, and many dinosaurs may have made closed-mouth booms and coos. #dinosaurs #asteroid #dinosaurextinction #chicxulub #kpgboundary #extinction #trex #crocodile #crocodiles #impactwinter #tsunami #deccantraps #iguanodon #megalosaurus #birdsaredinosaurs #paleontology #prehistoricanimals #animatedscience #funnyscience #scienceexplained