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The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed.

A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West Africa creating a large crater during the same era.

It would have been a “catastrophic event”, the scientists say, causing a tsunami at least 800m high to tear across the Atlantic ocean.

Dr Uisdean Nicholson from Heriot-Watt University first found the Nadir crater in 2022, but a cloud of uncertainty hung over how it was really formed.

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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

wow! this must be the most "fuck you in particular" moment ever.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Jesus hates dinosaurs. Confirmed.

Lie:

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I gotta admit, on my small phone screen, that did NOT look like a dinosaur's neck coming out of Jesus at first...

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

If you were a divine, omnipotent, being, wouldn’t you give yourself a giant schlong?

At least…. Once…?

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago
[–] tlou3please@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

He's even force choking those ones in the background

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

People have speculated that the culprit could have been a binary asteroid along with the Chicxulub impactor. Even if that wasn't the case, it's estimated that similarly-sized (~450 m) impacts occur every 50,000-100,000 years. That would mean there could have been many hundreds of such impacts in the 66 million years since Chicxulub, so not nearly as unlikely of a coincidence as it seems from reading the article -- especially considering the million-year margin of uncertainty in dating this smaller crater.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_crater

[–] woop_woop@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The ol' double tap never fails

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