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Inside the First 24 Hours After the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit

When you think about catastrophic events in Earth’s history, few match the raw, apocalyptic devastation that unfolded 66 million years ago when an asteroid, about ten kilometers (six miles) in diameter, struck Earth. This wasn’t just any cosmic collision – it was the event that ended the age of dinosaurs and reshaped life on our ...