The beginning of the end hurtled in without warning 66 million years ago.
The impact triggered a tsunami and a hail of deadly glass rain, then choked the Earth's atmosphere in dust in the version of events believed to have marked doomsday for the dinosaurs.
In the leading theory, the reign of one of the grandest and most fearsome species ever to walk the Earth came to an end after an impact from an asteroid or comet.
But world-leading scientists' findings at a prehistoric "killing field" may be the best evidence yet that the massive meteor set off the sequence of events that led to the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, Berkeley News reports.
A six-year-long dig in the United States has uncovered what may be the Holy Grail of fossils.
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Prehistoric 'killing field' full of dinosaur fossils 'proves meteorite theory'
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