Palaeontology
"Lost world" of dinosaurs survived extinction ?
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T.K. RandallMay 3, 2009 ·
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A new study has suggested that a small pocket of dinosaurs somehow survived the mass extinction 65 million years ago and went on to thrive in an isolated region for up to half a million years.
An isolated group of dinosaurs somehow survived the catastrophic event that wiped out most of their kind some 65.5 million years ago, a new study suggests. Dinosaurs of this "lost world," in a remote region of the U.S. West, may have outlived their doomed relatives by as much as half a million years, according to James Fassett, an emeritus scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Santa Fe, New Mexico. "
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National Geographic |
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