The thesis in new simulations conducted by the American University of Harvard. The demise of the giant reptiles, 65 million years ago, opened the way for the evolution of mammals It would not have been an asteroid, but a comet, that would have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. This is indicated by new simulations conducted by the American University of Harvard, the results of which are published in Scientific Reports. A fragment of this celestial body would have landed on Earth about 65 million years ago. The remains of the impact can be found in the Chicxulub crater, under the Yucatán peninsula, in Mexico.According to the study authors, astrophysicists Avi Loeb and Amir Siraj, the comet originated from the sphere of debris at the edge of the Solar System, the Oort cloud, the cradle of comets. The celestial body was pushed off course by Jupiter’s gravitational field during its orbit and projected towards the Sun.
The extinction of the dinosaurs caused by a comet, the remains in a crater in Mexico
