Asteroid Impact Kills 75% of Dinosaurs
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What if a giant asteroid had not wiped out the dinosaurs?
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A 66 million -year-old asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago , killing 75% of species on Earth .
Paleontologists say it's possible that dinosaurs would have continued to evolve and rule Earth .
Some dinosaurs may have lived in frigid conditions, such as ice ages, the majority didn't.
The extinction of land-dwelling dinosaurs gave our primate ancestors the opportunity to thrive and evolve, a study found.
If the asteroid had missed Earth , it's likely that humans, at least as we know them, never would have existed.
"History would have been totally different," Brusatte said.
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