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  2. Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia

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    The aftermath of the asteroid collision, which occurred approximately 66 million years ago, is believed to have caused the mass extinction of non-avian dinosaurs and many other species on Earth. [13] The impact spewed hundreds of billions of tons of sulfur into the atmosphere, producing a worldwide blackout and freezing temperatures which ...

  3. After 66 million years, scientists discover there wasn’t just ...

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    A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...

  4. Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was water-rich and ... - AOL

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    The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping out the dinosaurs — originated from the far reaches of our solar system, unlike most asteroids that have ...

  5. The asteroid that killed dinosaurs hit at worst possible ...

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    Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid larger than Mt. Everest ripped through the atmosphere of Earth, striking our planet at the Yucatán Peninsula, on the southeastern coast of Mexico.

  6. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs - Wikipedia

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    [2] He became interested in dinosaurs as a teenager, not a young child like many palaeontologists, so he read adult popular science books, which he described as a "gateway into science". He wanted to write an up-to-date book on "the whole evolutionary story of dinosaurs" that would fill that niche and cover new discoveries, which hadn't been ...

  7. Timeline of Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event research

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    John M. Cys argued that dinosaurs went extinct because they were unable to hibernate during the winter, leaving them doomed by Earth's changing climate. [23] 1968. Daniel I. Axelrod and Harry Paul Bailey proposed that the dinosaurs were driven extinct when Earth's climate began exhibiting more marked seasons rather than stable conditions year ...

  8. The Annihilation Event That Killed The Dinosaurs Left This ...

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  9. All Tomorrows - Wikipedia

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    All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man is a 2006 work of science fiction and speculative evolution written and illustrated by the Turkish artist C. M. Kosemen under the pen name Nemo Ramjet.