Dinosaurs ‘wiped out by meteor shower lasting thousands of years’
30th August 2010
Scientists had previously identified the a giant Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico as the site of a single meteor strike thought to have obliterated prehistoric life on Earth.
But evidence for a second impact in Ukraine, dating back thousands of years before the Chicxulub impact, has raised the possibility that the dinosaurs may have been blitzed with a shower of meteorites
August 30th, 2010 at 10:48
Please don’t get Al Gore started with “Inconvenient Meteors”.