Dinosaurs dying out before asteroid — maybe
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 12:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Some dinosaur populations were already dying out during the last 12 million years of the Cretaceous — long before a big asteroid smashed into Earth, a new study claims.
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