For the first time, an hour-by-hour timeline reveals what happened after the asteroid crash that ...
A massive asteroid struck current-day Mexico 66 million years ago. The impact contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs and 75% of life on Earth at the time./ By analyzing rocks from deep in the asteroid crater, scientists were able to reconstruct what happened during the day after the impact./ The samples revealed that the asteroid crash caused a mile-high tsunami, wildfires, and the release of billions of tons of sulfur into the air. The sulfur blotted out the sun and led the planet to cool down./ While many dinosaurs died near the ...
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