Scientists have blamed sulfur released by the Chicxulub impact for the impact winter that killed the dinosaurs for decades, but the meteorite responsible belongs to a class that contains markedly less sulfur than the types previously proposed as the culprit

A new analysis of the dinosaur-killing asteroid upends decades of climate theory, suggesting the impact winter may have unfolded through an entirely different mechanism than scientists believed. The post Scientists have blamed sulfur released by the Chicxulub impact for the impact winter that killed the dinosaurs for decades, but the meteorite responsible belongs to a class that contains markedly less sulfur than the types previously proposed as the culprit appeared first on Space Daily .