Itwas, to put it mildly, a bad day on Earth when an asteroid smacked Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, causing a global calamity that erased three-quarters of the world's species
ByNikk Ogasa. August 22, 2022 at 9:00 am. Chicxulub, the asteroid that wiped out most dinosaurs, might have had a little sibling. Off the coast of West Africa, hundreds of meters beneath the
Hiddenbelow the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the Chicxulub crater marks the impact site of an asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago. The mostRelated: A second asteroid may have crashed into Earth as the dinosaurs died. This new research will allow scientists to better simulate impact events on Earth and other planets.
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Theclaim is the Tanis creatures were killed and entombed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck Earth. "Dinosaurs and the impact are two things that are absolutely linked in our minds"
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