This New Evidence Could Rewrite the Dinosaur Extinction

What really killed the dinosaurs?
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Think you know what killed the dinosaurs? Think again. Breakthrough evidence is reshaping everything we knew about Earth’s most famous mass extinction, and revealing that the famous asteroid impact might not tell the whole story.

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0:00 The Dinosaur Extinction
2:24 Iridium
3:41 Chicxulub Crater
6:21 Fish Fossils
7:53 Why Was It So Deadly?
11:27 15-Year Winter
13:53 Double Impact
20:43 Volcanic Eruptions
23:53 Earth’s Recovery
26:35 Fungi Take Over

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References:
“Extinction Day”, via imperial.ac.uk https://astrumspace.info/extinctday
“The Chicxulub File: Discovering the K-Pg Mass Extinction”, via researchgate.net https://astrumspace.info/chicxfile
“A Seismically Induced Onshore Surge Deposit at the K-Pg Boundary”, via nih.gov https://astrumspace.info/kpgsurge
“Dinosaur-Destroying Asteroid Struck in Spring”, via nature.com https://astrumspace.info/springext
“A Steeply-Inclined Trajectory for the Chicxulub Impact”, via nature.com https://astrumspace.info/chicxtraj
“Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Shark and Ray Diversity”, via sciencedirect.com https://astrumspace.info/sharkdiv
“Five-Mile Asteroid Impact Crater Below Atlantic”, via hw.ac.uk https://astrumspace.info/nadir
“Fungal Proliferation Before and After the K-Pg Mass Extinction”, via pnas.org https://astrumspace.info/kpgfungi
“U-Pb Geochronology of the Deccan Traps”, via science.org https://astrumspace.info/deccantraps
“Space Dust Reveals Rapid Evolution After Dino-Killing Asteroid”, via science.org https://astrumspace.info/spacedust

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