Darkness, not cold, likely responsible for dinosaur-killing extinction

Friday, March 20, 2020 - 09:40 in Paleontology & Archaeology

New research finds soot from global fires ignited by an asteroid impact could have blocked sunlight long enough to drive the mass extinction that killed most life on Earth, including the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago.

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