REdOrbit-28 March 2013- Staff
Researchers from the University of Colorado claim to have uncovered new evidence supporting the notion that a Manhattan-sized asteroid collided with the Earth some 66 million years ago, triggering a global firestorm that would have led to the extinction of 80 percent of the planet’s species.
According to Douglas Robertson of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and colleagues, the firestorm caused by the asteroid believed to have slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula would also have had a tremendous impact on the environment as well.
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