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What Really Killed the Dinosaurs? It Wasn't Just an Asteroid
Original: What Really Killed The Dinosaurs? (It Wasn't Just An Asteroid)
The claim that the dinosaurs were wiped out by more than just the asteroid impact is drawing wide attention. The established theory holds that a massive asteroid strike near Chicxulub, Mexico, 66 million years ago caused the extinction, but researchers have long debated contributing factors such as massive volcanic eruptions in India's Deccan Traps, climate stress and ecosystem collapse that may have weakened species before the impact.
Why now: Ongoing scientific debate about whether volcanism and climate change combined with the asteroid impact is drawing renewed public interest in the dinosaur extinction.
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