Massive meteorite impact didn’t terrorise our ancestors after all, scientists find, but struck Earth still recovering from blast that killed off the dinosaurs
The new Hiawatha impact date of 58 million years ago means Greenland wasn’t covered by an ice sheet as it is today but was a temperate rainforest with temperatures averaging around 20 degrees Celsius. The impact would have caused widespread destruction, unleashing several million times more energy than a nuclear bomb.
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