BBC WORLD SERVICE: Science in Action: The day the dinosaurs died

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    A remarkable new fossil find shows a record of events in the minutes and the hours that followed the impact of a 10km wide asteroid. The fossils show how plants and animals were thrown up into the atmosphere before crashing down again.

    Period8 Apr 2019

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    • TitleScience in Action
      Media name/outletBBC World Service
      Media typeRadio
      Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
      Date8/04/19
      DescriptionA remarkable new fossil find shows a record of events in the minutes and the hours that followed the impact of a 10km wide asteroid. The fossils show how plants and animals were thrown up into the atmosphere before crashing down again.
      URLhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csym1h
      PersonsPhillip Manning
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    Keywords

    • dinosaurs
    • extinction
    • palaeontology

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