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Asteroid let dinosaurs rule

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Impact may have caused mass extinction that let hardy giants thrive.

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  1. Olsen, P. E. et al. Ascent of dinosaurs linked to iridium anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Science 296, 1305 - 1307 (2002).

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Pearson, H. Asteroid let dinosaurs rule. Nature (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/news020513-11

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