We May Finally Have An Answer To What Killed Dinosaurs

  • 9 years ago
Researchers believe they may have reconciled two long-standing—and opposing—theories about the cause of the mass extinction event that occurred 65.5 million years ago.

The debate over what killed the dinosaurs, while thankfully giving rise to many Hollywood blockbusters, has often seemed intractable. 
Scientists just couldn't agree on whether it was volcanoes or an asteroid impact that killed nearly three-quarters of the world's plant and animal life—but maybe both theories are right.
Researchers from UC Berkeley believe they worked in tandem to kill the dinosaurs; that the

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