The Extinction of Dinosaurs: Volcanoes vs. Asteroid Impact
Jakarta – About 66 million years ago, all dinosaur from non-avian species, extinct. Initially for decades, scientists believed that uncontrolled volcanism was the cause of Earth’s fifth mass extinction, known as the K-Pg extinction. But in the late 1970s, petroleum miners discovered evidence of a large impact crater in Yucatan, Mexico, that coincided with the … Read more