Fossil shells reveal both global mercury contamination and warming when dinosaurs perished

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 09:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The impact of an asteroid or comet is acknowledged as the principal cause of the mass extinction that killed off most dinosaurs and about three-quarters of the planet's plant and animal species 66 million years ago.

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