Cité des Sciences : Science newsScience news powered by la Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, ParisExtinction of the dinosaurs: the end of the road for the meteorite hypothesis- July 15, 2004 For more than twenty years, it has been widely accepted that the extinction of the dinosaurs was due to the fall of a meteorite. However, recent research has shown that the Chicxulub crater - identified as the location of the impact that caused this catastrophe - predates the disappearance of the dinosaurs by 300,000 years.http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.p... |