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Season 1, Episode 8: The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: The Day The Dinousaurs Died

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One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the planet 66 million years ago and brought a calamitous end to the reign of dinosaurs.

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