Asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs

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London, UK (SPX) Jun 30, 2020

Modelling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in. The asteroid, which struck the Earth off the coast of Mexico at the end of the Cretaceous era 66 million years ago, has long been believed to be the cause of the demise of all dinosaur species except those that became birds. However, some researchers h

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