Just what hit our earth 66 mya?????

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event - Wikipedia, the ...

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... comet/asteroid impact 65 million years ago and its catastrophic effects on the .....80 Ma, giving it insufficient time to shift orbits and impact the Earth by 66 Ma.

‎Chicxulub crater - ‎K-T boundary - ‎Chicxulub impactor - ‎Impact winter

Dinosaur Extinction - Science - National Geographic

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Sixty-five million years ago the last of the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. So too did the giant mosasaurs and plesiosaurs in the seas and the pterosaurs in the  ...

Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered Global Winter 66 Million ...

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May 14, 2014 - An asteroid hitting Mexico's Yucatan some 66 million years ago is shown in this computer depiction. ILLUSTRATION BY JOE TUCCIARONE,  ...

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K-T extinction | Britannica.com

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Jan 13, 2015 - ... close to the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, about 66 million years ago. The K–T extinction was characterized by  ...

Extinction - American Museum of Natural History

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Around 66 million years ago, a wide range of large dinosaurs roamed the continents, while winged reptiles called pterosaurs flew overhead. By 65 million years  ...

Dinosaurs wiped out rapidly in Europe 66 million years ago ...

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Jan 13, 2015 - Dinosaurs flourished in Europe right up until the asteroid impact that wiped them out 66 million years ago, a new study shows. The theory that ...

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Furry, beaver-like creature thrived after dino-killing asteroid
Christian Science Monitor‎ - 4 hours ago
Some 66 million years ago, after a comet wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs, a large, ...
Double catastrophe killed dinosaurs, says study
EarthSky‎ - 3 mins ago
Ancient beaver-like mammal survives dinosaur apocalypse, thrives
Morning Ticker‎ - 11 hours ago
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Dinosaurs wiped out rapidly in Europe 66 million years ago ...

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Science Daily

Jan 13, 2015 - The well-known theory that an asteroid suddenly killed the dinosaurs is based almost entirely on fossils from North America. A new study shows ...

The Great Mystery: Background

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University of California Museum of Paleontology

So, we knew that dinosaurs went extinct some 64-66 million years ago, but that was all. Many wild ideas about how the dinosaurs were rendered extinct were  .