"The Cretaceous-Tertiary Impact" 2007 digital Master RGB File: 3,738 pixels high 5,500 pixels wide 300 dpi resolution 58.9 Mb uncompressed Image Use Publication History

A six-mile wide asteroid slams into the northern tip of what is now the Yucatan peninsula at the close of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago. This catastrophic impact may have been a factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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