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Climate change devastated dinosaurs not once, but twice – The Jakarta Post – Jakarta Post
Most people know that land-dwelling dinosaurs were wiped out some 66 million years ago when an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth.
Most people know that land-dwelling dinosaurs were wiped out some 66 million years ago when an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth.
If the explosive fireball didn’t get them, the plunge in global temperature on a planet with little or no ice — caused by a blanket of heat-shielding debris in the atmosphere — did.
What most people don’t know is that more than 100 million years earlier, another climate change cataclysm devastated a different set of dinosaur species, with…
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