Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had help from volcanoes, study says

Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 13:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Scientists have long blamed a single culprit in the sudden and violent mass extinction that took out the dinosaurs: an asteroid that came screaming out of the skies some 66 million years ago. But it turns out that this asteroid may have had an accomplice. Scientists studying ancient lava flows...

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