What kind of world would it be if the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, missed? Check out my video and get an idea!

The Chicxulub crater, a 110 mile wide and 12 mile deep asteroid scar on the Earths surface. Caused by a 6 mile long asteroid that struck present-day Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula over 65 million years ago. This event unleashed mega-tsunamis, mega wildfires and caused dust and debris to block the sun, causing a period of global cooling. Although other factors were involved in the dinosaurs' extinction, this event was pretty much the end of the dinosaurs as they were blasted, roasted and frozen to death, in that order. What would Earth be like now if that asteroid had missed? And the dinosaurs continued to dominate the planet.
Well if there were still huge dinosaurs roaming around the Earth then this would have meant that mammals never had the opportunity to diversify into a lot of different species. Mammals would not of evolved a range of body sizes, diets and become the dominant creatures we know them as today. Dinosaurs and mammals originated at about the same time during the Triassic age, but the dinosaurs became dominant and the mammals remained rare for over 160 million years. So the evolution of mammals as we no it, only happened because of the extinction of the dinosaurs. But if dinosaurs still existed and carried on thriving across the planet they would not look as we no them. Not like we see in Jurassic park anyway. It is likely that due to evolution they would of carried on changing, allowing the creatures to adapt. Dinosaurs were constantly evolving during their 160-million-year reign on earth, from whole new species to changing body sizes. But present day there would more than likely of been large plant-devouring sauropods instead of elephants and some type of tyrannosaurs in place of the lions. They could of comfortably colonised many environments, from polar conditions to regions of rivers, forests, jungles and deserts because of there adaptability.
According to palaeontologist Larry Witmer, the Troodon was the most advanced dinosaur at the time of extinction. They were small, upright, bi-pedal dinosaurs which lived in large groups and evidence suggests they had good vision and even potentially had a brain structure compatible with problem-solving. But with all these trates, could the Troodon of evolved in to an intelligent creature such as ourselves? The way that humans have evolved in to what we are today, has meant that we have been extremely successful. So if the dinosaurs had never become extinct then could one of the species of evolved in to a Dinosauriod? Well there isn't any reason to think that big-brained dinosaurs would have evolved in the first place, even the Troodon was, at best, on par with ostriches apparently. But if they did, then there is also no reason to think that they would evolved in to looking like scaly humans. We look the way we do because of our evolutionary history. Having a smart brain does not mean that you need the body shape that we have. So an intelligent Dinosauriod would probably off followed its own evolutionary history, they might of had horizontal body posture, Digitigrade feet, a tail and maybe feathers. Also in a world of intelligent Dinosauriods there would be no cows, no sheep, no cats etc meaning that there would be no milk, no leather, no wool and no domestic companionship. But there could of been perfectly suitable Dino-substitutes for all of the day to day necessaries. So with all this in mind the planet that we live on and think we know would of been a completely different world. Almost an alien world and that asteroid that ended the golden age of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was one hell of a bad day for the dinosaurs. But one hell of a good day for us mammals.

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Earth showing impact site-Ron Blakey, NAU Geology
The maniraptoran dinosaur Saurornitholestes digging-Dr. Edward Simpson.
Early Cretaceous of China, pencil drawing-ArthurWeasley
Various dinosaur bones- Cadiomals
Indroda Dinosaur and Fossil Park, Gandhinagar-FabSubeject
Alamosaurus, author - Bogdanov
Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor skeletons-Zach Tirrell
Diplodocus carnegiei, the well known sauropod-Nobu Tamura
Indian elephant bull -Yathin S Krishnappa
Lion- Kevin Pluck
Triceratops vs Tyrannosaurus rex- Marcin Chady
Elmisaurus rarus- FunkMonk
Dinosauroid- Jim Linwood
Sauropods- Gerhard Boeggemann
Albertosaurus models, Royal Tyrell Museum- D'Arcy Norman from Calgary, Canada
"All This" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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