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Were Dinosaurs Dying Out Before The Asteroid Hit? New Study Adds to The Debate – ScienceAlert

Life on planet Earth is a fragile thing. All it takes is one wayward asteroid, and bam, there goes the most dominant group of land animals on our planet.

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Life on planet Earth is a fragile thing. All it takes is one wayward asteroid, and bam, there goes the most dominant group of land animals on our planet.
If it wasn’t for the 10 kilometre-wide meteorite that hurtled into Earth some 66 million years ago, dinosaurs might have continued to dominate the land, a new paper suggests. As for mammals like ourselves, we may never have gotten the chance to rise. 
The results are the latest in a long and drawn out debate on the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs.

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