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  1. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ☄️🔥 A recent study from #Purdue suggests fine dust from the #Chicxulub impact trapped heat in the upper #atmosphere, effectively charbroiling exposed organisms within hours.

    Post-impact dust would have delivered 17 times the lethal #radiation dose for #humans, igniting #grass and #lichen across the #planet.

    👉 arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

    #dinosaurs #asteroid #massextinction #cretaceous #science #paleontology #earthscience #wildfires #astronomy

  2. Every mammal alive today, including you, is a descendant of the small, scared creatures that somehow clawed through those years of darkness. The cataclysm that ended the dinosaurs is, in the most literal sense, the reason you exist.

    dino-world.com/the-day-the-ear

    #dinosaurs #Chicxulub #asteroid #massextinction #lifeonEarth #science