If giant dinosaur-destroying asteroid had hit elsewhere, they could still be roaming the Earth

If giant dinosaur-destroying asteroid had hit elsewhere, they could still be roaming the Earth

If it had hit the Earth a matter of seconds earlier or later, dinosaurs could well still be doing their dinosaur thing and we would probably not exist. That’s the finding of scientists who have been digging around the massive Chicxulub Crater just off the coast of Mexico, which was created when a nine-mile-wide asteroid hit the Earth about 66 million years ago, an event that is believed to have led to the dinosaur die-off that wiped out giants such as Tyrannosaurus Rex. According to a just-aired BBC documentary, The Day The Dinosaurs Died, because the asteroid hit in the shallow waters surrounding the Yucatan Peninsula – rather than plunging into deep ocean – it created a giant sulfur cloud from

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