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What If Non-Avian Dinosaurs Hadn’t Gone Extinct?
Nov 28, 2022 by The Conversation
About 66 million years ago, a 10-km-wide asteroid crashed into Earth near the site of the small town of Chicxulub in what is now Mexico. The impact unleashed an incredible amount of climate-changing gases into the atmosphere, triggering a chain of events that led to the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs and 75% of life on the planet. But this event made human evolution possible. The surviving mammals flourished, including little proto-primates that would evolve into Homo sapiens.
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/dinosauroids-11427.html
