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2 days ago

Dinosaurs were thriving until asteroid struck, research suggests

Dinosaurs would not have become extinct had it not been for a catastrophic asteroid strike, researchers have said, challenging the idea the animals were already in decline. About 66m years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, a huge space rock crashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that wiped out all dinosaurs except birds. However, some experts have argued the dinosaurs were already in decline.
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1 month ago

Dinosaur egg dated directly for the first time

A Chinese dinosaur eggshell was directly dated to about 85.9 million years using laser ablation U-Pb isotopic analysis.
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