Fire, brimstone, and billions of tons of soot killed the dinosaurs

Dinosaurs met a hellish end as fiery brimstone rained down from the sky and broiled the Earth’s surface after a massive asteroid struck the planet.

Fire, brimstone, and billions of tons of soot killed the dinosaurs

The biblical horror continued with billions of tons of soot from the fires blotting out the sun and plunging the Earth into icy darkness for nearly two years, new research has shown.

In addition, large-scale

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