chicxulub crater
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Dust Doomed the Dinos, Scientists Say
We all know how the story goes: a large asteroid falls to Earth from space, slamming into the Yucatán Peninsula with 100 million megatons of force. The impact spawned tsunami waves best measured in miles and kicked up dust, soot, and sulphur that blotted out the Sun, causing the death of about 75% of Earth’s…
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Scientists Detect Isolated Community of Microbes in Crater Left by Dino-Killing Asteroid
New research examines the rock-dwelling microbes that eventually returned to the spot where a 10 km-wide asteroid smashed into Earth some 66 million years ago, killing off most life on the planet.