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Nightfall on the Cretaceous - Artist view

by

Julius T. Csotonyi/Novapix

Reference

a-ast99-90025

Date

2010-04-17

This image portrays the late Cretaceous Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis under a starry sky that includes a very bright new star: the impending KT asteroid, from which small particles are already entering the atmosphere and burning up as meteors. Above, a small marsupial mammal scurries along a Metasequoia branch, poised for world domination.