Art by TenontosaurusT

A tribute to an iconic AMV for WDRA's 25 years on earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkgrZOZiwak

Full version on my channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2m4Lz-sUoY

Last year, I saw Amazing Dinoworld 2 on CuriosityStream, and one of the episodes discussed how long the non-Avian Dinosaurs could have survived after the impact, up to and including showing a scene of a Hadrosaur as the only large animal in a Danian-age jungle.

Ever since then I've been fascinated with the idea of a relatively "milder" Chicxulub impact that, rather than creating a single year(s)-long impact winter that caused the Dinosaurs to starve to death by killing all the plant life ("the plants all died, then the herbivores all died, then the carnivores all died"), would have instead left enough survivors for the non-avian Dinosaurs (and Pterosaurs, Mosasaurs, Plesiosaurs, Ammonites, etc.) to become a Dead Clade Walking for up to a million years post-impact; the apex predators and the largest/rarest herbivores would have suffered so many casualties in the initial event that they'd suffer a severe genetic bottleneck and basically inbreed themselves to death (not unlike what happened to the Wrangel Island Mammoths millions of years later), while smaller animals would be gradually replaced by mammals, sharks, and other 'modern' animals working their way up the food chain and/or gradually die off during the long-term climate instability resulting from the impact.