Rethink of fossils hints dinosaurs still thrived before asteroid hit

Rethink of fossils hints dinosaurs still thrived before asteroid hit

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less diverse

Dinosaurs were thriving before asteroid impact, study finds

Scientists say that dinosaurs weren't doomed when an asteroid hit Earth. Fossil unearthings before the asteroid collision, at the end of the Cretaceous epoch, show that dinosaurs were losing variety and numbers. At first, some scientists thought this alteration showed dinosaurs were headed toward extinction even before the fatal asteroid incident. Nevertheless, this concept has long been argumentative, with other researchers insisting that dinos…