Thursday, March 18, 2010

The extinction of the dinosaurs and the crater of Chicxulub

The prestigious North American magazine Science has just be published by an article where he sums all the knowledge up on the Cretaceous limit – Paleógeno (Cretaceous – Tertiary) and his relation with the crater of Chicxulub (Mexico). It is a multidisciplinary work in which there have taken part three members of the area of Paleontology of Saragossa (Laia Alegre, Ignacio Arenillas, José Antonio Arz). His conclusions are clear: the Chicxulub crater is the one that Paleógeno produced to himself for the fall of a big extraterrestrial object in the Cretaceous limit–. The effects associated with this impact are the massive cause of many organisms, including the dinosaurs.
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