‘Rock-solid’ case: Asteroid killed the dinosaurs

Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 15:56 in Paleontology & Archaeology

After almost 20 years of debate, a blue-ribbon scientific panel says there's an "international consensus" that an asteroid impact caused a dinosaur-killing mass extinction 65 million years ago. Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event - Extinction event - Impact event - Earth - Earth Sciences

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