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Dinosaurs

08/29/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Just one asteroid strike thrust the planet into YEARS of darkness, killing almost everything

Around 65.5 million years ago, an asteroid about six to nine mi — or 10 to 15 km — in diameter collided with the Earth. Known as the Chicxulub impactor, the meteor created an enormous impact crater underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It’s believed that the Chicxulub impactor was what caused the mass extinction […]

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