Friday 19 December 2014

Asteroid That Made Dinosaurs Extinct may Have Nearly Knocked Off Mammals, too

A new study has shed light on an asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs may have wiped out mammals as well. The new study, by an international team of experts on mammal evolution and mass extinctions, showed that these once-abundant mammals nearly followed the dinosaurs into oblivion. The study showed that when a 10-km-wide asteroid struck what is now Mexico at the end of the Cretaceous and unleashed a global cataclysm of environmental destruction, some two-thirds ...

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