How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs

66 million years ago a giant space rock crashed into our planet and killed the dinosaurs. In the span of just four decades, we’ve gone from not knowing there was a space rock at all to knowing exactly where that planet-killer came from. Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios....

13 min - Dinosaurs & Prehistory - PBS Eons

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