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Norman MacLeod of the Natural History Museum in London and his team suggest that most dinosaurs died due to changes in the earthly environment some 65 million years ago than due to exotic visitors like asteroids. They studied the fossil record of extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous period

Publication Date: 
30/05/1997
Down to Earth [2]
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Environmental Science [3], Fossils [4], United Kingdom (UK) [5]
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