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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 ...
Dinosaurs Weren’t Fading Before the Asteroid—We Just Suck at Finding Their Fossils
New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era ...
Dinosaurs weren't going extinct before the asteroid strike
The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...
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Dinosaur extinction theories are challenged by new research
Dinosaur extinction theories suggest populations were dwindling when an asteroid wiped them out. New research is challenging ...
Dinosaurs could have lived with humans without the asteroid impact, study reveals – here’s what caused their decline before
A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences ...
Were dinosaurs really about to be extinct before the asteroid hit?
A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing ...
Dinosaur fossils rewrite what scientists once thought about the asteroid extinction
The study looked at the dinosaur groups Ankylosauridae (armoured herbivores), Ceratopsidae (large three-horned herbivores, ...
Dinosaurs' apparent decline prior to asteroid may be due to poor fossil record, say researchers
The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be ...
Were dinosaurs doomed before the meteor? This is what a shocking new study reveals
A groundbreaking study on dinosaur populations leading up to their extinction points to sampling biases within the fossil ...
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Were dinosaurs headed for extinction even before massive asteroid strike? Scientists offer new clues
“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic,” Chiarenza said. “If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with ...
Dinosaurs were not in decline before asteroid impact, new study suggests
A new study suggests that dinosaurs likely weren't in decline before an asteroid wiped them out 66 million years ago; instead ...