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A newly identified ‘Hell Chicken’ species suggests dinosaurs were not in danger of extinction before the fateful asteroid hit

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Were dinosaurs already on their way out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, ending the Cretaceous Period, the geological era that began about 145 million years ago? It’s a question that has plagued paleontologists like us for more than forty years. In the late 1970s, debate began over whether dinosaurs were at … Read more

A newly identified ‘Hell Chicken’ species suggests dinosaurs were not in danger of extinction before the fateful asteroid hit

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The bird-like dinosaur *Eoneophron infernalis* was about the size of an adult human. Zubin Erik Dutta Were dinosaurs already on their way out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, ending the Cretaceous Period, the geological era that began about 145 million years ago? It’s a question that has plagued paleontologists like us … Read more