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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. Nonsense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Everyone knows the dinosaurs' extinction was caused by a Lone Asteroid, fired by Oswald from the Proxima Centauri book depository.

  2. Mass extinction by droleary · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The second impact may have been in the Indian Ocean.

    And you thought it was just tech jobs that got outsourced to India!