The impact of an asteroid about ten kilometers in size on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula marked the end of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. However, the latest research shows that a much smaller cause may have played a decisive role in the extinction of the giant prehistoric lizards.
The Chicxulub asteroid’s impact in the north of what is now the Yucatan Peninsula has long been considered the trigger for a global winter impact event that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs and about 75 percent of all other species on Earth during the so-called Chalk. Paleogene boundary about 66 million years ago.
However, the impact of the different types of debris thrown from the crater on the climate has so far been controversial, leaving the exact cause of the mass extinction unclear.
Source: Krone
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