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Asteroid dust caused 15-year winter that killed dinosaurs — study

But exactly how the impact of the asteroid Chicxulub caused all those animals to go extinct has remained a matter of debate.

A replica of the Meraxes gigas dinosaur on display in Buenos Aires. (Credit: AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

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PARIS - Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid bigger than Mount Everest smashed into Earth, killing off three quarters of all life on the planet --

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