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An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...
New research overturns the idea that dinosaurs were already dying out before the asteroid hit.
New study finds dinosaurs weren’t declining before asteroid impact; a biased fossil record misled decades of paleontology.
Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that ...
Researchers say the dinosaurs weren’t yet in decline shortly before the extinction event, contradicting previous findings ...
Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...
The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in ...
For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...
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.
There might still be dinosaurs living on Earth today — if not for the giant asteroid. It’s a long-debated issue, but now researchers say the idea Dinosaurs were in decline before the Chicxulub ...