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Published online 3 December 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031201-3
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Roast dinosaur off the menu?
Giant meteorite impact 65 million years ago may not have set the world on fire.
New evidence questions the idea that a meteorite impact thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs triggered worldwide wildfires.
A crater about 180 kilometers wide attests to an asteroid having hit Earth at Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico 65 million years ago.
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