Researchers plan to drill deep into crater left by dino-killing asteroid

Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 17:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Earth, leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs and most life on the planet. Now, researchers are drilling into the asteroid crater that formed the Gulf of Mexico to peer into the lives of the creatures that survived.

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