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Dinosaurs were not in decline before asteroid impact, new study suggests
- Scientists say dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid impact that caused their extinction.
- New research published in Current Biology argues that the belief in declining dinosaur diversity relies on faulty fossil data.
- The rarity of dinosaurs in the fossil record may be due to poor preservation rather than an actual decline.
- This debate about dinosaur extinction has lasted over 30 years, but the new research challenges previous assumptions.
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A study from the UK gained new insights into dinosaurs. According to this, the species were not already on their way to extinction before the asteroid hit.
By Katie Hunt, CNN It's a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid struck Earth one fateful spring day 66 million years ago, or were they already on the way to extinction and the space rock delivered a final, devastating blow? To find answers, a team of researchers studied the North American fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The ne…
Were dinosaurs headed for extinction even before massive asteroid strike? Scientists offer new clues
An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric creatures’ extinction wasn’t inevitable.
Dinosaurs Would Still Roam Earth If Asteroid Hadn’t Hit, Study Says
Dinosaurs Still Exist on Other Planets. Credit: Dave Catchpole / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Dinosaurs may have survived and continued to roam the planet Earth if a massive asteroid had not struck Earth 66 million years ago, says a new study. Researchers say the extinction was sudden and not the result of a long-term decline, challenging a theory that the species was already struggling before the impact. Fossil evidence shows no clear sign of population …
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