Meteorite impact caused global darkness and cold Palaeoclimatologists at Utrecht University, the VU University Amsterdam and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) have found the first concrete evidence for global cooling caused by a meteorite impact some 66 million years ago. Their findings were published on 12 May 2014 in the leading Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. Some 66 million years ago, a huge meteorite impact in the area of present-day Mexico caused the extinction of approximately half of all the plant and animal species on Earth. This meant not only the end of the dinosaur era, but also of the Cretaceous period.
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