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How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs

Season 8 Episode 5 | 10m 43s

66 million years ago a giant space rock crashed into our planet and killed the dinosaurs. In the span of just four decades, we’ve gone from not knowing there was a space rock at all to knowing exactly where that planet-killer came from.

Aired: 11/03/25
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