Asteroid Theory

Earth in Motion

In this first Science Bite, Museum scientist Kirk Johnson tells us why earthquakes happen and how mountains are born.

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Titans of the Ice Age 3D

Opens February 15, 2013
Peer through the 3D canvas to an ancient world of ice, the dawn of our species, a time when man shared the tundra with majestic woolly beasts.

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March 25, 2010
What killed the dinosaurs? For years, scientists have come up with different theories -- everything from massive volcanoes to multiple asteroids hitting the Earth. In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Kirk Johnson explains how an international team of scientists came to the conclusion that a single, giant asteroid was the real dinosaur killer.