Chicxulub (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Chicxulub

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An artist's depiction shows a comet striking coastal Yucatan, forming the giant Chicxulub impact crater and causing the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.

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Don Davis/NASA

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