Dinos might've survived if asteroid struck secs later: Study

As per scientists who drilled into the dinosaur-killing impact crater, the 66-million-year-old event might've had a very different outcome, if the 14-km-wide asteroid had struck seconds earlier or later. An impact into the Atlantic or Pacific, and not in the shallow Gulf of Mexico, would've caused fewer sulphur clouds allowing in more sunlight and possibly avoiding the extinction, scientists said.