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'Dream Team' Agrees Huge Asteroid Killed Dinosaurs

By Traci WatsonMar 4th 2010 – 2:22PM
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(March 4) -- For decades, scientists have debated exactly what kind of cataclysm was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Did a giant rock from outer space blast T. rex and his ilk off the face of the Earth? Or was a huge volcanic eruption to blame? Now the jury is in -- maybe. In Friday's issue of the...

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Background on dinosaur extinction

The Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, often referred to as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, occurred approximately 65.5 million years ago (Ma) at the end of the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous period.

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