A Tyrannosuarus-rex is stalking prey on an open game trail as a huge fireball in the lower atmosphere distracts it together with the two large herbivores below the ridge line. 66 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous period, a massive asteroid tore into Earths atmosphere and smashed into the area now know as the Yucatan peninsular creating the Chicxulub crater.

The asteroid had a diameter of 10-15km and blasted out a crater 150km wide, the ensuing atmospheric damage was catastrophic and led to the demise of all of the non-avian dinosaurs along with over 75% of all know species. This is recorded in Earth history as the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, also know as the K-T event.

This was the last of the 5 major extinction events recorded in Earth’s history although it’s possible that we humans are part way through creating the 6th by pushing the stable Holocene into a destructive, and astonishingly rapid, climate shift …… bad monkeys !!

Original oil on canvas, 90cm x 61cm. Signed by the artist.

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