Ahistory expert provided a detailed account of the horrible deaths the dinosaurs went through seconds after Earth was hit by a massive asteroid 66 million years ago. Many of the large animals were boiled alive, crushed to death and pelted by molten rocks during the catastrophic event.

Near the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid with a diameter of about 50 miles crashed in a region now known as the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The massive impact event created a 93-mile-wide crater with a depth of 12 miles.

The initial explosion from the asteroid caused a series of environmental effects that immediately killed off a large number of dinosaurs around the impact zone. In his recent article for the Daily Mail, journalist and history author Jonathan Mayo gave…