Why didn’t the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth also lead to the extinction of all other living species?

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Why didn’t the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth also lead to the extinction of all other living species?

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There is a recent speculation that this on may have been the result of two different asteroid strikes. The more famous One that occurred in now modern day Mexico but there’s another sizable one in the Antarctic. Because it’s covered with kilometers of ice we can’t study it real close but we’ve studied it close enough to know that it happened at about the same time geologically speaking

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