Chicxulub, an asteroid that collided with the Earth 66 million years ago and is believed to wipe out the dinosaurs, may have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned every twig, bush and tree on Earth and led to the extinction of 80 percent of all Earth’s species, according to a recent research published online in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. A new study shows that an asteroid believed to have smacked Earth some...
