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Where is the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs...
Scientists Could Never Agree on How the Dinosaurs Died.How big was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
So They Let a Non-Human Decide.
- For decades, paleontologists have debated what ultimately stamped non-avian dinosaurs’ extinction ticket—volcanism or asteroid impact.
- To add a new voice to the debate, scientists from Dartmouth University tasked an interconnected web of processors to come to its own conclusion sans human bias
- The resulting study concluded that volcanism located at India's Deccan Traps likely contributed the most to the dinosaur's demise though not all paleontologists agree
Some 66 million years ago, all dinosaurs (of the non-avian variety) met their end on planet Earth.
For decades, scientists believed that unrestrained volcanism from India’s Deccan Traps was the engine behind the Earth’s fifth mass extinction—known as the K-Pg extinction, or the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. But in the late 1970s, petroleum prospectors discovered evidence of a massive impact crater in the Yucatán that coincided chronologically with K-Pg extinction.
Scientists had found its dino-killing culprit … or did they?