Asteroid dust found at Chicxulub Crater confirms cause of dinosaurs’ extinction

An asteroid smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, killing some 75 percent of life on Earth, including all non-avian dinosaurs. Willgard Krause/Pixabay (Editor’s note: This article was updated Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, with information from a study in Nature Geoscience. The study shows that fine particles kicked up from the impact mayContinue reading “Asteroid dust found at Chicxulub Crater confirms cause of dinosaurs’ extinction”
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