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Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Left "Megaripple" Structure Underneath Louisiana Estimates say the waves in the ground could have reached over 100 meters (328 feet) high.

Scientists Found 52-Foot-Tall Underground Ripples From the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs.

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In 1980, the first paper to suggest that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs came out, under the pleasingly dramatic title "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction".

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 ...

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth, blasted debris everywhere, plummeted the planet into cold darkness, and ended the age of dinosaurs. (Though birds survived, of course.) ...

Scientists finally know where the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs came from. The asteroid is called Chicxulub Impactor and it hit Earth 66 million years ago. It wiped out 60% of all life on ...

In brief: A massive impact is the most commonly accepted theory on what caused the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Scientists continue to uncover more evidence supporting ...

Space & Spaceflight Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Has a Bizarre Origin Story When the Chicxulub asteroid slammed into Earth, it set off a chain of planet-wide devastation.