{"id":154269,"date":"2023-01-03T14:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/chicxulub-crater-might-be-the-smoking-gun-for-the-dinosaurs-end-of-days"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:24:34","slug":"chicxulub-crater-might-be-the-smoking-gun-for-the-dinosaurs-end-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/chicxulub-crater-might-be-the-smoking-gun-for-the-dinosaurs-end-of-days","title":{"rendered":"Chicxulub crater might be the smoking gun for the dinosaurs\u2019 end of days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jmDr0WCctrc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Forged 66 million years ago, an enormous impact crater near Chixculub, Mexico, was left undiscovered until only a few short decades ago. But what caused it?<\/p>\n<p>Millions of years ago, a dramatic mass extinction wiped out the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p>Marking the transition between the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras (which we are still in), it was one of the most significant events in Earth\u2019s history. The cause? Perhaps a giant asteroid hit Chixculub near modern-day Yucatan, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-six million years ago, something from the very edge of our solar system completed its unlikely journey into the inner planets.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Aunt_Spray\/iStock.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/chicxulub-crater-might-be-the-smoking-gun-for-the-dinosaurs-end-of-days\">Continue reading \u201cChicxulub crater might be the smoking gun for the dinosaurs\u2019 end of days\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forged 66 million years ago, an enormous impact crater near Chixculub, Mexico, was left undiscovered until only a few short decades ago. But what caused it? Millions of years ago, a dramatic mass extinction wiped out the dinosaurs. Marking the transition between the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras (which we are still in), it was one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}