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Chicxulub: Dinosaur Killers

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Below the turquoise waters of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula lies the site of a long ago mass murder. In a geologic instant, most of the world’s animal and plant species went extinct. Drilling through hundreds of meters of rock, investigators have finally reached the "footprint" left by the accused. That footprint marks Earth’s most notorious space rock impact.

Known as Chicxulub (CHEEK-shuh-loob), it’s the dinosaur
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