An international panel of experts has strongly endorsed evidence that a space impact was behind the mass extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs.
Their review of the evidence confirms the view (see timeStory - Chapter 6) that the extinction was caused by a massive asteroid or comet smashing into Earth at Chicxulub on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8550504.stm for more details.
No comments:
Post a Comment