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How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs
Season 8
Episode 5
66 million years ago a giant space rock crashed into our planet and killed the dinosaurs. In the span of just four decades, we’ve gone from not knowing there was a space rock at all to knowing exactly where that planet-killer came from.
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