Over the course of the Earth’s history there have been five Mass Extinctions, a global event where at least 75% of the life on Earth dies. In most of these events the only life form to survive are bacteria, or other small organisms that can hide from the destructive force that wipes out everything else. The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) is the most recent and most famous Mass Extinction, taking place 65 million years ago. The K/T is the event in which the dinosaurs died in. The cause of this event is debated, however it is widely accepted by most scientists that the K/T extinction was triggered when a giant asteroid or comet struck the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico killing off close to 80% of life on Earth. This event was totally random and if it
