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The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, the most famous of the Big Five, has been attributed to what major event(s) that triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs?

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Currently it is believed that his extinction was caused by either an asteroid or comet impact on Earth or by a series of such impacts, and a likely location of one of the major impacts is the Gulf of Mexico.
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