Sixty-six million years ago, on an otherwise unremarkable day at the close of the Cretaceous, the world changed in an instant.If you had been standing in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, you would not have had time to wonder. A mountain-sized asteroid—roughly 10 to 12 kilometres across—tore through the atmosphere at extraordinary speed, brighter than the Sun and hotter than
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