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End of the "Lone Asteroid" Theory?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-changes-everything-and-nobody-cares dept.

hussar writes "This BBC article reports on research that suggests the dinosaurs were not killed off by the Chicxulub asteroid's immediate effects but ultimately fell to evironmental stresses caused by a second asteroid that hit about 300,000 years later. The second impact may have been in the Indian Ocean."

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  1. Nah, it couldn't have been... by doppleganger871 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...I thought it was the evil Republicans that caused the death of them. It must have been.

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  2. Re:Why not a viral extinction? by millahtime · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Why is it so strongly believed that some kind of environmental change wiped out dinos and not some kind of disease/virus?"

    Lets be honest here for a moment. Because some group of scientists with a huge ego said so.

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