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An asteroid triggered the death of the nonavian dinosaurs 66 million years earlier, so how did other animals endure?
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Around 66 million years agoan enormous asteroid smashed into Earth and wreaked mayhem internationally.
Superheated rock from the effect gushed into the air, producing a mushroom cloud that warmed Earth’s upper environment to a scorching 439 degrees Fahrenheit (226 degrees Celsius. Mile-high tsunami waves hurried through the Gulf of Mexico and disrupted ocean basins half a world away. Fires raved, burning animals and plants to a crisp. Shock waves propagated, blasting whatever in their course. And particles from the crash, consisting of sulfur, shot up, obstructing the sun and dropping as acid rain
Isabel Gil is Brooklyn-based science reporter getting her master’s degree in science, health and ecological reporting at New York University. She has degrees in ecological science and English literature from the University of Michigan, where she studied bats in New Zealand, arthropods in Northern Michigan and New England poetry in New Hampshire. She has actually reported for Michigan NPR affiliates WGVU and Michigan Public, where she covered mastodon excavations, Great Lakes research study, intrusive types and more. She was a 2025 recipient of the Bodie McDowell Scholarship from the Outdoor Writers Association of America.
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