NOVA S8E8: The Asteroid and the Dinosaur
- Aired: 1981-03-10
- Time: 21:00:00
- Runtime: 60 minutes
Overview
For 150 million years, dinosaurs dominated the earth. Then, 65 million years ago, they suddenly vanished, along with a great deal of the planet's animal and plant life. NOVA examines a remarkable theory about the cause of the catastrophe—in which the first clue to the solution was a piece of clay.