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Nightfall on the Cretaceous - Artist view

author: Julius T. Csotonyi/Novapix

reference: a-ast99-90025

Image Size 300 DPI: 20 * 36 cm

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.

Keywords for this photo:

ANIMAL - ASTEROID - ASTRONOMY - COLLISION - CRETACEOUS - DINOSAUR - EARTH - EXTINCTION - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - MAMMAL - MESOZOIC - METEOR - METEORITE - MILKY WAY - NEAR-EARTH OBJECT - NIGHT - ORNITHISCHIA - PACHYCEPHALOSAURUS - SILHOUETTE - SYNAPSID -