ocr: lt's not likely you will hit that Beetle anytime soon, but one of these days, one of these millennia, you will inevitably crush one vintage compact car. The last bowling bail to devastate Earth - either a comer or an asteroid- -hit about 65 million years ago. It blasted a crater more than a hundred miles wide under today's Yucatan Peninsula and threw up a global cloud of dust and gas. The sun was all but blocked for: years, dropping average temper- atures: to near freezing and killing off more than half of the plant and animal species on Earth. The dinosaurs died. On the other hand, many mamma ...
