• Question: What actually caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? Was it a meteorite or is that just speculation? Is there any proof?

    Asked by roseg to Angela, Gopal, Hannah, Becky, Vince on 23 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by vickycmhowell.
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      Rebecca Cook answered on 23 Jun 2013:

      Well technically not all dinosaurs are extinct as birds evolved from dinosaurs that could fly, so therefore the dinosaur lineage still exists today.

      A large meteorite fell to earth at the time dinosaurs went extinct and scientists think this collision could have resulted in an extreme heat wave and then a cooling of the earth’s atmosphere that the dinosaurs wouldn’t have survived.

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