Dinosaurs were thriving before asteroid strike that wiped them out
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 09:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Dinosaurs were unaffected by long-term climate changes and flourished before their sudden demise by asteroid strike. Scientists largely agree that an asteroid impact, possibly coupled with intense volcanic activity, wiped out the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago. However, there is debate about whether dinosaurs were flourishing before this, […]