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Did Huge Volcanic Eruptions Help Kill Off The Dinosaurs?

By Roni Dengler
Feb 21, 2019 10:22 PMMay 21, 2019 6:00 PM
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A large series of volcanic eruptions created India's Deccan Plateau right around the same time dinosaurs were going extinct. (Planet Labs, Inc/Wikimedia Commons)

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Nearly 66 million years ago, most living things on Earth died. Most researchers agree that the prime culprit was an asteroid that struck Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, leading to the mass extinction that took out most of the dinosaurs. But in a new research published Thursday, two independent research groups are making the case that enormous volcanic eruptions in India likely contributed to the demise of life, too.

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