Dinosaurs were not in decline before asteroid impact, new study suggests

A study from the UK gained new insights into dinosaurs. According to this, the species were not already on their way to extinction before the asteroid hit.

By Katie Hunt, CNN It's a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid struck Earth one fateful spring day 66 million years ago, or were they already on the way to extinction and the space rock delivered a final, devastating blow? To find answers, a team of researchers studied the North American fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The ne…

Dinosaurs Weren’t Fading Before the Asteroid—We Just Suck at Finding Their Fossils

New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era.

Meet Sue The Fossil, An “Inside-out, Legless, Headless Wonder” That Dates Back 444 Million Years

“I tell my mum, in jest, that I named the fossil Sue after her because she is a well-preserved specimen.”

Were dinosaurs headed for extinction even before massive asteroid strike? Scientists offer new clues

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric creatures’ extinction wasn’t inevitable.

Dinosaurs Would Still Roam Earth If Asteroid Hadn’t Hit, Study Says

Dinosaurs Still Exist on Other Planets. Credit: Dave Catchpole / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Dinosaurs may have survived and continued to roam the planet Earth if a massive asteroid had not struck Earth 66 million years ago, says a new study. Researchers say the extinction was sudden and not the result of a long-term decline, challenging a theory that the species was already struggling before the impact. Fossil evidence shows no clear sign of population …