It has been a long-held belief that it was the impact of an asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs, but researchers have revealed that the one key element may have played a larger part than previously thought.
When an asteroid between 10 and 15 kilometres wide struck Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula around 66 million years ago, its impact caused devastation, setting off wildfires, earthquakes, and megatsunamis, leading to a collapse of the ecosystem that let plants and creatures thrive.
