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Ep. 385: A Wild New World

The MeatEater Podcast

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What Is the Substance of the Asteroid?

It was a gigantic asteroid more than seven miles in diameter and traveling at 27,000 miles an hour. It did not hit from straight down. It hit at an angle that was really severe on North America because it was basically in the- what would today be the Gulf of Mexico. I mean, creatures just really got wiped out. And if still left these big piled up remnants of mud and debris, five and six stories high on the ocean floor.

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