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Mexico's sinkholes trace the crater of the dinosaur-killing asteroid

BBC Earth Science's Ancient Earth excerpt turns from a computer-generated catastrophe to geological clues hidden in the Yucatán jungle.

Channel: BBC Earth Science Story of Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video is running at 287,673 views a day, 10 times its usual pace (28,514).

The Hidden Evidence Of The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs | BBC Earth ScienceThe Hidden Evidence Of The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs | BBC Earth Science

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  1. 0:00Computer-generated imagery depicts the asteroid impact, followed by scientists explaining the scale of its destructive force.
  2. 1:37The film shifts to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, where jungle covers the ancient impact zone.
  3. 2:10Chris Lowery explains how erosion forms cenotes, the region's water-filled sinkholes.
  4. 3:00The promised clue appears: a semicircular ring of cenotes traces the ancient crater's inner rim.

Chris Lowery looks at a tablet covered in dots. Each marks a water-filled sinkhole in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, but together some of them reveal something much larger: the outline of an ancient impact crater.

That is the discovery at the heart of BBC Earth Science's "The Hidden Evidence Of The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs | BBC Earth Science". Posted six days ago, the clip has added roughly 288,000 views in a day, about ten times its usual daily pace.

Taken from Ancient Earth (2023), it begins with computer-generated destruction: an asteroid the size of Mount Everest strikes Earth, sending a shockwave across prehistoric landscapes. NASA's Jessica Watkins supplies the understatement: "Not a great day to be a dinosaur."

Then the film trades the blast for jungle. Lowery, from the University of Texas at Austin, enters a cenote and explains how erosion creates these water-filled sinkholes. On the satellite map, he picks out the Ring of Cenotes, a semicircular arrangement corresponding closely to the inner rim of the Chicxulub crater. The landscape has become a way to read what lies beneath it.

The map is also where viewers want more time. Several comments ask how to distinguish the ring from the other clusters of dots, or why sinkholes should follow the crater's edge. Others point out the abrupt finish, just as Lowery compares the pattern to a bullseye. The excerpt reaches its central clue near the end, leaving the fuller geological explanation outside this clip.

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What viewers say

  • The ring of cenotes tracing the crater's rim is such a beautiful piece of detective work — thousands of sinkholes quietly outlining a 66-million-year-old impact. Nature really does keep its own records.
    @fortunefactsdailySee it on YouTube
  • I guess I need to see the whole thing. I didn't really see how to spot the clusters that form the circle of impact. I thought the clusters were going to be on the right side where there was a more dense band.
    @GoggForGodSee it on YouTube
  • "Almost like a bullseye of the impact crater..." Video ends???
    @forestyforestSee it on YouTube
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  • NGL, I saw the graphic of the asteroid impact, and my mind immediately goes back to Rogue One with the single reactor ignition from the Death Star! XD
    @MD2389See it on YouTube

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The facts
Subscribers
1,830,000
Channel views, last 7 days
2,721,145
Channel views, pace per day
411,649 (on a normal day: 488,147)
Video published
November 6, 2026
Video views so far
459,058 (6 days online)
Video views, pace per day
287,673 (on a normal day: 28,514)

The numbers

The asteroid excerpt's daily views have climbed sharply, even as BBC Earth Science's overall daily viewing sits below its usual level.

views per day, this video
typical day
28,514
now
287,673
subscribers
1,830,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
330,105,980
views per day
411,649
typical day: 488,147
the video
views
459,058
likes
2,020
comments
210
days online
6
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