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Description

Sixty-five million years ago a gigantic comet or asteroid as big as Mount Everest slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula, creating an explosion on impact equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. It produced a cloud of roiling debris that blackened the sky for months as... read more

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First Sentence

But it was too late.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Walter Alvarez (Author)
  2. Carl Zimmer

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