Last dinosaur before mass extinction discovered

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 21:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A team of scientists has discovered the youngest dinosaur preserved in the fossil record before the catastrophic meteor impact 65 million years ago. The finding indicates that dinosaurs did not go extinct prior to the impact and provides further evidence as to whether the impact was in fact the cause of their extinction.

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