Russian meteorite sheds light on dinosaur extinction mystery

Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 08:32 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A long-standing debate about the source of the asteroid that impacted the Earth and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs has been put to rest thanks to the Chelyabinsk meteorite that disintegrated over Russia in February 2013, a new paper published in the journal Icarus shows.

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