Dinosaur-killing asteroid also created a dust cloud that insulated Earth, 'charbroiling' Cretaceous creatures
July 28, 2026
July 28, 2026
WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, July 28 -- Purdue University issued the following news release:
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Dinosaur-killing asteroid also created a dust cloud that insulated Earth, 'charbroiling' Cretaceous creatures
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid about the size of Mount Everest smacked into Earth near where the Yucatan Peninsula is today. That impact created the Chicxulub crater and may have knocked out about three-quarters of . . .
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Dinosaur-killing asteroid also created a dust cloud that insulated Earth, 'charbroiling' Cretaceous creatures
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid about the size of Mount Everest smacked into Earth near where the Yucatan Peninsula is today. That impact created the Chicxulub crater and may have knocked out about three-quarters of . . .