Similar collisions, like the one that took place 65 million years ago, caused major mass extinctions, wiping out most of the planet’s living species.
The collision of large asteroids with the Earth is usually related to the worst episodes of mass extinction, moments in which a significant percentage of living species cease to exist due, more than to the impact itself, to its consequences on the medium-term climate. .
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