Taking a break from all these theories, I thought I would share this particularly interesting fact that I stumbled upon during my research... approximately 65 million years ago, a huge meteorite impacted the coast of the Yucatan peninsula (home-to-be of the Maya, as you will hopefully know by now), coinciding with one of the largest mass extinctions on Earth. Scientists put two and two together and now believe that it was actually one of the major factors that led to the end of the dinosaur era (a result of the subsequent darkness and cooling from the meteorite ejecta). In fact, without this meteorite on Yucatan, the Earth wouldn’t be as we know it today, and humans may not have even existed!
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