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The asteroid left a 62-mile impact crater when it slammed into the Earth.

The new study used a simulation to show that the dinosaur-killing asteroid caused a global tsunami. Mile-high tsunami waves traveling halfway around the world occurred following the impact of the dinosaur-killing asteroid 66 million year ago, according to a new study led by researchers in the United States.

Future research will model the extent of global flooding after the impact and how far inland the tsunami's effects could be felt.

The dinosaur-killing asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago also triggered a jumbo-size tsunami with mile-high waves in the Gulf of Mexico whose waters traveled halfway around the world, a new study finds.

An asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago and wiped out dinosaurs had also triggered a massive tsunami, with its waves reaching miles-high, a study has found. It said that the tsunami was so large that it started from the Gulf of Mexico and covered half of the Earth till New Zealand. The asteroid’s direct hit spurred a mass extinction of 75 per cent of animal and plant life on the planet.