Analyses of sediments from hundreds of meters beneath the Yucatán suggest that an extraterrestrial object’s impact there more than 65 million years ago—the punch that many scientists propose wiped out the dinosaurs—actually happened about 300,000 years before those mass extinctions occurred. Many researchers reject the new conjecture, however.
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