Science fiction depicts large asteroids killing animals, with large ones depicted to wipe out an entire species in as colorful and chaotic ways as possible. While these may cause quite a stir for entertainment value, scientists recently decided that there is no actual way to know how deadly these things actually are.
British scientist Clemens Rumpf previously said that the initial shockwave of the asteroid would be the biggest killer of life on Earth. However, thanks to new studies he and his team published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, it was found that there are other ways asteroids could kill life on the planet.
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