When the Dino-Killing Asteroid Hit, Mammals Were Already on the Move
Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...
Mammals were adapting from life in the trees to living on the ground before dinosaur-killing asteroid, research reveals
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...
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Dinosaurs: Facts about the reptiles that roamed Earth more than 66 million years ago
Most dinosaurs suddenly went extinct about 66 million years ago after an asteroid struck Earth. You can see evidence of this impact at the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico ...
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New map of ‘mega ripples’ caused by dinosaur-killing asteroid helps recreate extinction event
Dinosaur tracks fossilised on the ground on ... Previous studies have found that the nearly 10km-wide asteroid that slammed into the water near what is now Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula triggered ...
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What if the asteroid had missed?
The extinction of the dinosaurs was most probably caused by an asteroid hitting the Earth - but what would have happened if the giant space rock had missed? For a long time it was thought that ...
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Humanity isn’t asteroid-proof yet. But we’re getting closer.
Garan quoted a colleague: “If the dinosaurs had a space ... to imagine that a real-life asteroid called Icarus, which astronomers had already identified, would hit the Earth in the near-future ...
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Mammals were adapting from life in the trees to living on the ground before dinosaur-killing asteroid
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.