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Extinction Extravaganza

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

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Are the Decking Traps a Smoking Gun?

There could be a 100,000 year gap between basically the decking traps stopping erupting and then the asteroid hitting. It has to line up really precisely with the mass extinction for it to be a smoking gun. In this study, they collected more than 1,000 dinosaur eggshell samples from the Shanyang Basin in China. This is during the late Cretaceous.

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