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Will have the latest on the us election for you and also coming up, new research on dinosaurs suggest they were thriving right up until they were thriving right up until the moment that meteorite wiped them out. let's begin with some good news... us pharmaceutical giant, pfizer, says latest data suggests its coronavirus vaccine is even more effective than we first thought. pfizer and biontech have released preliminary data which suggests the vaccine is 94% effective in people aged over 65. last week, the companies said the vaccine was more than 90% effective. and earlier this week, there was i...

Whether they will deliver on those promises, you know, is yet to be seen. what would have happend to dinosaurs if they hadn't been wiped out by a meteorite hitting earth 66 million years ago? well the popular thinking has been that they may have been dying out in any case. but new research here in the uk suggests they could have continued to dominate the planet but for that devastating moment. andy moore has the story. an asteroid the size of the isle of wight hurtling towards the earth at 20 times the speed of a bullet. this is what scientists believe caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 66...

The scientists in this latest study examined various dinosaur family trees to come to their conclusion. they used statistical modelling to fill in gaps in the fossil record. dinosaurs ruled the earth for tens of millions of years, and if it hadn‘t been for a chance encounter with some interplanetary debris, they might have carried on ruling the earth for millions more. andy moore, bbc news. with us now is dinosaur expert, professor phil manning from the university of manchester. lovely to have you on the programme. before we chat to you about that story, the shelves behind you, those are som...

Investigation into this. dinosaurs were not in decline at the time of their extinction when an asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago. and they may have continued to dominate the planet if that had not happened. this is suggested by new research from the university of bath and the natural history museum in london. andy moore has the story. an asteroid the size of the isle of wight hurtling towards the earth at 20 times the speed of a bullet. this is what scientists believe caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. but there's disagreement about what was happening before...

To dominate the planet. andy moore reports. an asteroid the size of the isle of wight hurtling towards the earth at 20 times the speed of a bullet. this is what scientists believe caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. but there‘s disagreement about what was happening before that. some scientists say dinosaurs were already in decline, and the asteroid was the final nail in their coffin. but this new study says the dinosaurs were thriving — and if it wasn‘t for the asteroid, the earth might be a very different place. a lot of studies in the past have had the idea tha...