The American Museum of Natural History is re-staging one of the greatest plot twists in the history of Earth—and it involves a killer asteroid, a global winter and a few very unlucky dinosaurs.

" Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs " opens to the public today, November 17, dropping visitors into the moments before, during and after the massive collision 66 million years ago that erased 75% of all species—and eventually cleared the way for mammals (and us) to show up.

This isn’t a redux of your childhood dinosaur hall, though. The museum has leaned into the scale, spectacle and scientific updates: an 18-foot Triceratops yanks down a tree, a 27-foot mosasaur lunges at a plesiosaur and a towering early mammal looks overhead as a reminder that not all of the survivors of the apocalyp

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