The Day the Dinosaurs Died

BBC Four HD

2:45 AM to 3:40 AM

Friday 27 June

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Documentary examining whether an asteroid strike 66 million years ago triggered a worldwide catastrophe, killing off the dinosaurs and wiping out 75 per cent of all life on Earth. Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod joins a multimillion pound drilling expedition into the exact spot in the Gulf of Mexico that was the point of impact, while palaeopathologist Alice Roberts meets leading scientists to find if the effects could have wiped out dinosaurs across the world almost immediately