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  2. Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia

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    Artist's impression of the asteroid slamming into tropical, shallow seas of the sulfur-rich Yucatán Peninsula in what is today Southeast Mexico. [13] The aftermath of the asteroid collision, which occurred approximately 66 million years ago, is believed to have caused the mass extinction of non-avian dinosaurs and many other species on Earth. [13]

  3. Evolution of the horse - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of the horse, a mammal of the family Equidae, occurred over a geologic time scale of 50 million years, transforming the small, dog-sized, [1] forest-dwelling Eohippus into the modern horse. Paleozoologists have been able to piece together a more complete outline of the evolutionary lineage of the modern horse than of any other animal.

  4. List of predicted asteroid impacts on Earth - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of asteroids that have impacted Earth after discovery and orbit calculation that predicted the impact in advance. As of December 2024 [update] , all of the asteroids with predicted impacts were under 5 m (16 ft) in size that were discovered just hours before impact, and burned up in the atmosphere as meteors .

  5. After 66 million years, scientists discover there wasn’t just ...

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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 ...

  6. Asteroid impact on moon blasted two grand canyons in 10 minutes

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    The object that struck the moon is estimated to have been about 15 miles (25 km) in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs.

  7. Scientists Say They've Found the Largest Asteroid Impact ...

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    Scientists believe they’ve discovered what time and erosion have concealed.

  8. Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event - Wikipedia

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    As originally proposed in 1980 [9] by a team of scientists led by Luis Alvarez and his son Walter, it is now generally thought that the K–Pg extinction was caused by the impact of a massive asteroid 10 to 15 km (6 to 9 mi) wide, [10] [11] 66 million years ago causing the Chicxulub crater, which devastated the global environment, mainly ...

  9. Scientists puzzled by asteroids that hit Earth 35 million ...

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    The fossils were between 35.5 to 35.9 million years old and were found in a nearly 10-foot-long rock core: a tube-like sample taken from underneath the Gulf of Mexico by the scientific Deep Sea ...