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The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Stranger Than We Thought
Scientists are narrowing down the type of space rock that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, and new research suggests it was no ordinary rock. The Chicxulub impactor, the space rock that struck what is now Mexico 66 million years ago, left behind an enormous crater but almost nothing of [...]
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