Sixty-six million years ago, the dinosaurs looked up from their world-domination and saw something plunging from the sky. They couldn’t have known it, but their world was over. Here are a few links about current findings and theories of that day:

• The New Yorker magazine, March 29, 2019 – this article discusses the possibility that a paleontologist may have found a large fossil trove from the actual day that the asteroid hit:
• A BBC article that essentially summarizes the New Yorker article
• A Space.com post that discusses the idea that it was an asteroid that struck
• A Harvard Gazette article from February 2021 that instead theorizes a comet from the Oort Cloud smashing into the Earth
• A Livescience.com post that talks about what probably happened in the moments and hours following the impact
• And if you ever wondered how and why cockroaches survived the impact (which of course they did – they were there before it hit, and are still with us), here you go.