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Asteroid dust cloud may have caused mass extinction: study
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Archie Niari
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New research suggests that the asteroid impact that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs created a massive dust cloud that trapped heat and baked the planet. This atmospheric change likely turned a localized disaster into a global mass extinction event.
A giant asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago may have done more than trigger earthquakes and towering tsunamis. New research suggests it also wrapped the planet in a heat-trapping blanket of dust that effectively baked much of the surface, leaving few places for life to escape.
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