Palaeontology
It's official: an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
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T.K. RandallMarch 6, 2010 ·
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A global team of scientists have announced that an asteroid impact is the only plausible cause for the dinosaurs' extinction.
Its been a subject of hot debate for decades but scientists have now agreed that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by a massive asteroid that smashed in to the planet at Chicxulub in what is now Mexico.
A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that has divided experts for decades.
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