“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic,” Chiarenza said. “If it weren’t for ...

Then, in a blink of a geological eye, an asteroid struck, unleashing an apocalypse that rendered the dinosaurs extinct. Yet, amidst this cataclysmic event, a group of creatures not only survived but ...

then shrank until the asteroid strike wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs. This trend was even more pronounced in the 6 million years before the mass extinction, with the number of fossils from all ...

Namely, were these ancient creatures already on the decline when that fateful asteroid came crashing ... for and against the idea that extinction rates among dinosaurs were accelerating towards ...

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic,” Chiarenza said. “If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with ...