In Chicxulub news, the meteor hit Yucatan's shore at 60 degrees. They tell us that is bad.
It was back in January noted that the Deccan Traps weren't the dino killers. What I didn't know was that the Deccans happened before that strike from the stars. I'd thought they were a (literal) knock-on effect, from the mantle being sloshed about. But no. Just a coincidence. In the short term anyway.
The analogy might instead be to Permian / Triassic. There was a smaller extinction first. (In an ecosystem already alien to Jurassic-era fauna.) Then the next event knocked this reeling ecosystem into mass death.
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