600 Million Years Ago, an Asteroid Strike Shook the Planet – And Its Effects May Still Linger
Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...
NASA Image Reveals How Asteroid Transformed a Mountain
The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.
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Dinosaurs: Facts about the reptiles that roamed Earth more than 66 million years ago
It may have weighed up to 180,800 pounds (82,000 kilograms). An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. The crash left a giant ...
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6 biggest asteroid strikes on Earth
They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.
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World’s oldest-known meteor crater discovered in Australia is 3.5BILLION years old and was once 60miles wide
THE world's oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ... of the impact that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs, Chicxulub crater, which is the second-largest impact ...
Earth’s Oldest Crater May Have Jumpstarted Life
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52-foot-high 'megaripples' from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs mapped deep beneath Louisiana in 3D
Related: What happened when the dinosaur-killing asteroid slammed into Earth ... pointing back to their source in the Chicxulub impact crater at the tip of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
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Dinosaurs: Facts about the reptiles that roamed Earth more than 66 million years ago
Most dinosaurs suddenly went extinct about 66 million years ago after an asteroid struck Earth. You can see evidence of this impact at the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico ...