Scientists settle on single-asteroid hit as culprit in dinosaurs' demise
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 16:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
{A {lsquo}dream team' of researchers concludes that the massive Gulf of Mexico impact 65.5 million years ago -- not volcanoes or multiple impacts -- indeed caused the greatest extinction event of all It's official: The extinction of the dinosaurs and a host of other species 65.5 million years ago was caused by a massive asteroid that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, creating...