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Asteroid shock: 'City-sized' space rock NOT volcano destroyed dinosaurs

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Express by Tom Fish 2/15/2020

Asteroid shock: 'City-sized' space rock NOT volcano destroyed dinosaurs

ASTEROID experts finally have conclusive proof a space rock strike not a volcanic eruption was responsible for dinosaurs' demise.

The Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction was the sudden mass extinction of most of the plant and animal species on the planet, approximately 66 million years ago. Scientists long theorised volcanism was the culprit behind the the death of the dinosaurs.

Now a University of Southampton team has ended decades of debate an asteroid triggered the extinction event.

Paul Wilson, professor of paleo climatology told Express.co.uk he had found the extinction event is directly contemporaneous with “the fingerprint of an asteroid impact.”

He said: “We’ve just discovered there can be no doubt that the cause of the Cretaceous tertiary extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and 90 percent of marine life forms was this asteroid impact.

“So a giant lump of rock the size of Manhattan slammed into the Gulf of Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula, creating a 200km-wide pole in the ground.

More: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1241564/asteroid-news-city-sized-space-rock-not-volcano-dinosaur-extinction-cause

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