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Were dinosaurs headed for extinction even before massive asteroid strike? Scientists offer new clues
An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...
Dinosaurs' apparent decline prior to asteroid may be due to poor fossil record, say researchers
The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be ...
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New Evidence Debunks the Theory That Dinosaurs Were Declining Before the Asteroid
New research suggests the theory that dinosaurs were declining before Chicxulub is the result of a poor (and misleading) ...
Dinosaurs weren't going extinct before the asteroid strike
The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...
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Dinosaurs' apparent decline prior to asteroid may be due to poor fossil record
The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine ...
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Dinosaur extinction theories are challenged by new research
Dinosaur extinction theories suggest populations were dwindling when an asteroid wiped them out. New research is challenging ...
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Dinosaurs Were Doing Just Fine Before an Asteroid Wiped Them Out: Study
Despite previous research, Earth's long-gone mega-reptiles probably weren't dying off before an impact winter did them in for ...
Dinosaur fossils rewrite what scientists once thought about the asteroid extinction
The study looked at the dinosaur groups Ankylosauridae (armoured herbivores), Ceratopsidae (large three-horned herbivores, ...
Dinosaurs were not in decline before asteroid impact, new study suggests
A new study suggests that dinosaurs likely weren't in decline before an asteroid wiped them out 66 million years ago; instead ...