Asteroid impact sulfur release less lethal in dinosaur extinction

ScienceDaily
Jan 16, 2025, 1:38 pm94 pts
Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact crater 66 million years ago. A new study questions this scenario. Using groundbreaking empirical measurements of…

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