Articles for tag: Chicxulub impact, dinosaur extinction, Earth history, mass extinction event, paleontology

Hour Zero: Reconstructing the First 24 Hours After the Dino-Killing Impact

Hour Zero: Reconstructing the First 24 Hours After the Dino-Killing Impact

You’re probably thinking you know this story already. A massive asteroid hits Earth, dinosaurs die, end of tale. Yet what happened in those first fateful 24 hours after impact has remained one of Earth’s greatest unsolved mysteries until now. Scientists have finally pieced together an hour-by-hour reconstruction of our planet’s most catastrophic day, and the ...