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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Julia Musto

Scientists discover there wasn’t just one asteroid which killed dinosaurs – after 66 million years

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A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

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