World Fossils discovered from the day the dinosaurs died 66 million years ago, when an asteroid hit the Earth March 29, 2019March 31, 2019Doyle Rice, USA TODAYComments Off on Fossils discovered from the day the dinosaurs died 66 million years ago, when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, in what's now North Dakota, a group of animals died together, only a few minutes after a huge asteroid smashed into the Earth.