Dinosaurs Thrived Until the Asteroid Impact, New Evidence Shows
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New research shows that dinosaurs in North America were thriving up until the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, with fossils from New Mexico indicating they lived just 340,000 years before the extinction event, challenging the idea that they were already in decline.
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