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Found: Fossils created by asteroid that annihilated dinosaurs
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(CNN)The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago almost took all of life on Earth along with it.
The impact of the Chicxulub asteroid devastated 76% of all species and nearly all of the planet’s vegetation. Because dust clouded the atmosphere and blocked the sun, photosynthesis slowed and phytoplankton in oceans stopped producing oxygen.
It was dark, extremely hot in the crater left by the asteroid and extremely cold everywhere else — conditions that made it impossible for most life to thrive.
But in the days, weeks and decades after the catastrophic event, microbacteria were swept…
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