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Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Plunged The Earth Into A Deep Freeze

The Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs likely released far more climate-altering sulfur gas into the atmosphere than originally thought, according to new research. A new study… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for … Continue reading

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At Least 105 Killed as Powerful 7.1 Earthquake Strikes Central Mexico

People cleared the rubble of a damaged building in Mexico City after a major earthquake struck on Tuesday, the second to hit the country in less than two weeks. Credit Alfredo Estrella/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake … Continue reading

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Confederate submarine crew killed by their own weapon

A powerful shockwave from the H.L. Hunley’s own weapon killed the crew of the Confederate combat submarine as it sunk a Union ship. This finding comes from a four-year research project that involved repeatedly setting blasts near a scale model, … Continue reading

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Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created Endless Night and 18-month Winter as It Rained Fire

Tremendous amounts of soot, lofted into the air from global wildfires following a massive asteroid strike 66 million years ago, would have plunged Earth into darkness for nearly two years, new research finds. This would have shut down photosynthesis, drastically … Continue reading

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The Dark and Extreme Cold Killed Off the Dinosaurs

Dinosaur fossil (stock image). Sixty six million years ago, the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs started the ascent of the mammals, ultimately resulting in humankind’s reign on Earth. Climate scientists now reconstructed how tiny droplets of sulfuric acid formed high … Continue reading

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How the darkness and the cold killed the dinosaurs

Climate scientists now reconstructed how tiny droplets of sulfuric acid formed high up in the air after the well-known impact of a large asteroid and blocking the sunlight for several years, had a profound influence on life on Earth. Paleontology … Continue reading

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Soot may have killed off the dinosaurs and ammonites

A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous Period has been proposed by a research team. Strange & Offbeat: Fossils & Ruins News — ScienceDaily

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Soot may have killed off the dinosaurs and ammonites

A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous Period has been proposed by a research team. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily

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Dinosaurs killed off by ‘one-two punch’ of climate change and asteroid strike

Many scientists believe the extinction was caused by an asteroid impact, while some think regional volcanism was to blame, and others suspect it was due to a combination of the two Dinosaurs were killed off by a ‘one-two punch’: Deadly … Continue reading

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What really killed the dinosaurs?

University of Florida geochemist Andrea Dutton and colleagues at the University of Michigan have utilized a new technique of analysis to reconstruct Antarctic ocean temperatures that support the idea that the combined impacts of volcanic eruptions and an asteroid impact … Continue reading

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