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16 sie 2024 · A space rock that smacked into Earth 66 million years ago and devastated the ancient life living thereon took a remarkably circuitous route to get here, a new study has found. The deadly origins revealed.
16 sie 2024 · Feb. 24, 2021 — Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago by...
15 sie 2024 · The object that smashed into Earth and kick-started the extinction that wiped out almost all dinosaurs 66 million years ago was an asteroid that originally formed beyond the orbit of...
21 sie 2021 · Scientists have worked out where the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and most of life on Earth came from. This asteroid is officially known as the Chicxulub impactor and smashed into the...
25 paź 2024 · Isotope analysis has revealed that a rare type of asteroid called a carbonaceous chondrite was responsible for the impact that almost certainly brought about the extinction of the dinosaurs.
15 sie 2024 · Scientists have discovered new evidence that the rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, abruptly ending the age of dinosaurs, was a bit of an oddball.
16 sie 2024 · Sixty-six million years ago, an enormous asteroid collided with Earth, contributing to a mass extinction event that wiped out all the non-avian dinosaurs.