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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:39 am Post subject: Asteroid Didn't Kill Dinosaurs & Giant Dinosaur Discover |
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Yucatan Asteroid Didn't Kill Dinosaurs, Study Says
| Quote: | Angela Botzer
for National Geographic News
March 9, 2004
Sixty-five million years ago, a city-size asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula at a site known as Chicxulub (pronounced CHEEK-shoo-loob). The impact left a crater 110 to 170 miles (180 to 280 kilometers) wide and spewed massive volumes of ash into Earth's atmosphere.
Did that cataclysmic event trigger the extinction of the dinosaurs and 70 percent of the world's other species? For over a decade, most scientists said yes. |
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0309_040309_chicxulubdinos.html
Giant Dinosaur Discovered in Argentina
| Quote: | John Roach
for National Geographic News
July 28, 2006
Argentinean scientists have discovered gigantic neck, back, and tail bones from one of the largest dinosaurs ever to roam the Earth. |
(See a photo gallery of the giant dinosaur find.)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/puertasaurus-reuili-dinosaur/index.html |
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