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Sixty-five million years ago, according to some scientists, an asteroid bigger than Mount Everest slammed into North America, an event that caused the plant and animal extinctions that mark the end of the geologic era known as the Cretaceous Period.

Sixty-five million years ago, according to some scientists, an asteroid bigger than Mount Everest slammed into North America, and causing plant and animal extinctions that mark the end of the geologic era known as the Cretaceous Period.