A ‘Chicken From Hell’ Could Rewrite the Story of the Dinosaurs’ Final Days
This article was originally published by The Conversation.
Were dinosaurs already on their way out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, ending the Cretaceous period, which had begun about 79 million years earlier? It’s a question that has vexed paleontologists like us for more than 40 years.
In the late 1970s, debate began about whether dinosaurs were at their peak or in decline before their big extinction.