I'm Aisha Roscoe, and you're listening to the Sunday Story from Up First,
where we go beyond the news to bring you one big story.
About 66 million years ago, something huge happened on our planet.
It's known as the fifth mass extinction event,
and it wiped out some 50% of plants and animals on Earth.
You probably know the basics of the story,
an asteroid struck and killed off all the dinosaurs.
But recently,
scientists have been uncovering more details about what really happened at that pivotal moment in history.
Mantua, New Jersey,
is the site of a new paleontology museum and fossil dig site where scientists are discovering exciting new clues about what happened in the days and even hours after the asteroid hit.
The Edelman Fossil Park and Museum of Rowan University opened this spring to the public,
and now anyone who visits has the chance to go down into the quarry to find fossils themselves.
When we come back,
we go to the fossil site and find out what happened on that fateful day.
Stay with us.
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