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Double Trouble: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Instead of being driven to extinction by death from above, dinosaurs might have ultimately been doomed by death from below in the form of monumental volcanic eruptions. The suggestion is based on new research that is part of a growing body of evidence indicating a space rock alone did not wipe out the giant reptiles. The Age of Dinosaurs ended roughly 65 million years ago with the K-T or Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, which killed off all dinosaurs save those that became birds, as well as roughly half of all species on the planet, including pterosaurs. … Related PostsMay looks to sky to complete PhDGuitarist Brian May makes final preparations to submit a PhD thesis he abandoned in 1971, when he jo...Send Britons into space, urge expertsThe UK must launch a programme to put British astronauts in space or risk missing out on significant...China pandas forced to migrate for food [...]
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