How the dinosaurs went extinct: asteroid collision triggered potentially deadly volcanic eruptions
- Written by Craig O'Neill, Director of the Macquarie Planetary Research Centre/Associate Professor in Geodynamics, Macquarie University
An artist's impression of an asteroid about to hit Earth: it's what happens next that could have helped wipe out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.Shutterstock/Mopic
It’s almost 40 years since scientists discovered what wiped out the dinosaurs: an asteroid hitting Earth near modern-day Mexico. That was it, or so we thought.
A paper published...