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Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...
New study finds dinosaurs weren’t declining before asteroid impact; a biased fossil record misled decades of paleontology.
Dinosaurs have made their carbon footprint into the Marvel Universe, yet it's never explained how they went extinct. Now, ...
Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that ...
An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...
For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...
It’s a long-debated issue, but now researchers say the idea Dinosaurs were in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck 66 million years ago could be due to fossil collection practices.
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...
This was the iridium layer. Here on the bank of the Brazos, I was holding microscopic pieces of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs– fragments from the event that gave mammals a chance to ...
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After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, mammals became Earth's dominant land ...
It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike ...