Scientists Identify ‘Oddball’ Meteorite that Wiped Out Dinosaurs
- Scientists have identified an 'oddball' meteorite that caused the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
- Researchers analyzed a dark clay-rich KT boundary layer from Stevns Klint, Denmark, linked to the Cretaceous-Paleogene impact.
- Dr. Philippe Claeys, a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, contributed to the study.
- The Pacific Museum of Earth at the University of British Columbia hosted an exhibit related to the research.
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An asteroid strike in front of Yucatán wiped out many species 66 million years ago. But why worldwide? A U.S. research team provides a new explanation for this.
66 million years ago, Earth experienced one of the greatest catastrophes in its history. An asteroid approximately 10 kilometers in diameter, known today as Chicxulub, struck the area of what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The cataclysm not only ended the age of dinosaurs but also radically altered the course of evolution on our planet, paving the way for the dominance of mammals. Recent research sheds new light on the scale of the deva…
Scientists at Perdew University found that the dinosaurs did not kill the meteor impact itself 66 million years ago, but the unbearable heat and global forest fires, causing 3.5 times the heat from the dust cover of the Earth's surface, and only animals who could bury themselves in the ground or find shelter survived.
The asteroid responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs was probably not a common space rock. A new analysis indicates that it belonged to an extremely rare family of meteorites, carbon chondrites of type CO. This precision tells us the origin of the projectile and...
A rare type of meteorite known as a carbonaceous chondrite of the CO type was likely the object that hit Earth 66 million years ago and triggered the extinction of about 75 percent of all species, including all non-rodent dinosaurs. --- The dreaded asteroid that will save Earth could instead hit M...
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