Double hit of asteroid plus volcanoes killed off dinosaurs, study says

Friday, October 2, 2015 - 16:40 in Paleontology & Archaeology

It was a combination of calamities — an asteroid strike followed by vast volcanic eruptions half a world away — that doomed the dinosaurs and many other creatures 66 million years ago, new research says.

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