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173 Dinosaurs Were Thriving Until Asteroid Struck, Research Suggests

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/23/2025 23:30 EDT

Dinosaurs Were Thriving Until Asteroid Struck, Research Suggests

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Dinosaurs would not have become extinct had it not been for a catastrophic asteroid strike, researchers have said, challenging the idea the animals were already in decline. About 66 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, a huge space rock crashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that wiped out all dinosaurs except birds. However, some experts have argued the dinosaurs were already in decline. Now researchers say the dating of a ro

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