Earth barreling toward 'Hothouse' state not seen in 50 million years, epic new climate record shows
When you purchase through links on our web site , we may realise an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . Sixty - six million year ago , after amassive asteroidhit Earth with the explosive energy of roughly1 billion nuclear bomb , a winding-clothes of ash , debris and aerify rock cover the sky and slowly rained down on the satellite . As plant and animal specie dieden masse , tiny undersea amoebas call forams continued to reproduce , building sturdy shells out of atomic number 20 and other rich - sea mineral , just as they had for hundreds of billion of years ....