The Dinosaur Age Ended With Two Asteroids, Scientists Say

The only thing worse than getting punched in the face is getting hit twice. That’s almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, Scientists now say — just on a much, much larger scale. The asteroid that hit Chicxulub, Mexico, is still credited with killing the dinosaurs, but a second asteroid hit during that same era at the Nadir crater off the coast of Guinea in western Africa, proving once and for all that nature really had it in for the poor dinos. A new study published in Nature shows off the Nadir…

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