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66 million years ago, a giant meteorite crashed into Earth, transforming life on the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and ushering in a new era in biology.
The meteorite caused the extinct dinosaur to crash to Earth 66 million years ago from the northeast at its steepest angle, maximizing the release of climate change gas.
Previously, scientists always believed that Chicxulub crater craters in the Gulf of Mexico were the result of a collision between Earth and Chicxulub and it was this imp…
US scientists have mapped a large submarine cliff in the southern Gulf of Mexico, which is thought to contain clues to the extinction dinosaur collision millions of year…