Dinosaur-killing asteroid also created a dust cloud that insulated Earth, ‘charbroiling’ Cretaceous creatures (IMAGE)

Purdue University

Dinosaur-killing asteroid also created a dust cloud that insulated Earth, ‘charbroiling’ Cretaceous creatures

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Purdue planetary scientists Brandon Johnson and Alexandria Johnson discovered that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also created a global dust cloud causing planetwide spontaneous combustion, atmospheric contamination and population collapse in species that couldn’t take shelter.

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Purdue University/Kelsey Lefever

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