Asteroid killed off the dinosaurs, says international scientific panel

Monday, March 15, 2010 - 10:56 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The Cretaceous - Tertiary mass extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of species on Earth, was caused by an asteroid colliding with Earth and not massive volcanic activity, according to a comprehensive review of all the available evidence, published in the journal Science...

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