The ‘Prehistoric Beaver’ That Helped Mammals Inherit Earth

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By Stephen Brusatte - The ConversationOct 5, 2015, 3:30 am163 pts
Sixty six million years ago the world changed in an instant. A huge asteroid, some ten kilometers in diameter, smashed into what is now Mexico. It arrived with the force of several million nuclear bombs, and unleashed a deadly cocktail of wildfires, tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanoes. Read more...

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