When a six-mile-wide asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it didn’t just wipe out the dinosaurs. New findings suggest the impact triggered a massive earthquake that shook the planet for ...
The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in ...
The Garden State is home to numerous fossils dating back to the very last days of the dinosaurs. “What we have is a bone bed, and we can see it’s right at the end of the Cretaceous Period,” Kenneth ...
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A meteor hits one location – so why did all of Earth’s dinosaurs disappear?
Sixty-six million years ago, a single asteroid hit Earth in the Yucatán Peninsula and killed off the dinosaurs. The disaster was local, but its effects were planetary. How can a regional calamity have ...
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