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Earliest mammal pinpointed suggests the ancestry expanded after dinosaurs died off

Fri, Feb 8, 2013

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For the past twenty years there’s been a debate whether the mammal explosion that eventually made the class of animals dominant on Earth happened before or after the end of the dinosaur reign. Scientific papers and various evidence supporting both views have surfaced along the years, but a recent massive study conducted by a collaborative [...]

New dinosaur extinction theory: an ocean of lava

Thu, Jul 28, 2011

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It wasn’t just a devastating asteroid that killed off all the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Scientists from Boston University now claim that a massive eruption of lava fronts around the world, coinciding with the asteroid impact, sealed their fate forever. The controversial theory is betting on two unusually hot blobs of mantle 1,700 miles [...]

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