"By contrast, many species in the Southern Hemisphere would have been preparing to hibernate for the winter as opposed to gearing up for their reproduction cycles. That may have contributed to the survival of those species—particularly mammals, certain amphibians, birds, and crocodiles—who were more likely to be sheltering in burrows or caves at the time of impact."It still looks like that today! A host of images showing it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=view+of+earth+pacific+ocean&...
The location [0] may be a little surprising. The shared view above is deceptive due to the land at the edges.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres#/...
Interesting. Not sure where you got that 85% figure though:
>> even in the land hemisphere, the water area still slightly exceeds the land area (with 53 percent water to 47 percent land)
I'm trying to fix on a single point and move backwards in time to see the change but it keeps rotating the global every time... weird default functionality.
edit: weird, now it seems to work fine. I was disabling the 'rotate global' but it wasn't taking effect before
FYI we call it autumn.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-hemisphere-has-the...