Scientists Dug Into the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Crater and Uncover a Surprising Find
For a very long time, around 230 million years to be exact, huge and powerful dinosaurs were the leaders of our earth. These magnificent creatures, like the plant-eating brontosaurus with its long neck and the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex with deadly hunting skills, roamed the planet freely. However, about 66 million years ago, a major disaster happened that transformed the world as we knew it. Since then, the job of scientists has been to figure out what exactly happened in that catastrophic event. Scientists made an astonishing discovery about the catastrophic day that dinosaurs went extinct after extensive study of the Chicxulub Crater. This groundbreaking discovery drastically alters what we previously believed concerning the events of that fateful day.
The Asteroid
For countless eons, a massive asteroid has been swirling around in the vast ocean of space, nestled in an orbit somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. While this was happening, our delicate Earth was teeming with life, growing and blossoming.
An event from the cosmos dislodged a massive asteroid, throwing it off its orbit and causing it to hurtle towards Earth at a frightening speed of 45,000 miles per hour. It crashed into a sulfur shelf located in what is now commonly referred to as the Gulf of Mexico, creating catastrophic damage all over the planet. The demise of the dinosaurs was sealed. Yet, the burning questions remain: why and how did they vanish, and what was the origin of the terrifying space rock?
