Dead dinosaurs Victims of bad luck vanished in a geological eyeblink
October 27, 2009
By: Winnipeg Free Press
The Chicxulub crater, as it is known, may have been a mere aperitif. According to
Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, the main course was served later. Chatterjee
has found a bigger crater -- much bigger -- in India. His is 310 miles across. The
explosion that caused it may have been 100 times the size of the one that created
Chicxulub. He calls it Shiva, after the Indian deity of destruction.
The Chicxulub crater, as it is known, may have been a mere aperitif. According to
Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, the main course was served later. Chatterjee
has found a bigger crater -- much bigger -- in India. His is 310 miles across. The
explosion that caused it may have been 100 times the size of the one that created
Chicxulub. He calls it Shiva, after the Indian deity of destruction.
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