Article 62SCA Huge Crater Suggests a Second Asteroid Hit Earth at the End of the Dinosaurs

Huge Crater Suggests a Second Asteroid Hit Earth at the End of the Dinosaurs

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Isaac Schultz
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Researchers say they've discovered a large impact crater on the Atlantic seafloor that appears to be 66 million years old. That means whatever made this crater would have hit Earth around the same time as the rock that famously slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula, ending the reign of the dinosaurs.

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