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the parking lot for a rock that fired the dinosaurs and hired the mammals.
means a buried 180-kilometer-wide crater in mexico marking where a 10-kilometer asteroid ended the age of dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
from named for the small yucatan town chicxulub puerto near its center, from mayan meaning roughly tail of the devil, which in hindsight is on the nose.
impact energybillions of times stronger than a nuclear bomb
discovery methodfound via 1970s oil company gravity surveys
global effecttriggered wildfires, tsunamis, and years-long global winter
lucky survivorssmall mammals and birds squeaked through the darkness