The last march of dinosaurs. painting by Jorge Gonzalez ©
Graphs showing how speciation rate (blue) dipped and extinction rate (red) rose sharply in the last 10 million years of the age of dinosaurs. Run together, this corresponds to a rapid reduction in the number of species (black) just before the impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago. Image by Fabien L. Condamine ©. Press release issued: 29 June 2021
The death of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was caused by the impact of a huge asteroid on the Earth. However, palaeontologists have continued to debate whether they were already in decline or not before the impact.
Dinosaurs were already struggling before the asteroid strike that doomed them to extinction, study finds
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Dinosaurs were in decline up to 10 million years before asteroid hit – study
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