Agence France-Presse: The dinosaurs` long reign was not ended by a merciful knockout punch, but by a torturous millennia of climate change before and after the oft-blamed space rock slammed into Earth, scientists said Tuesday.
The impact at Chicxulub in modern-day Mexico certainly contributed to the disappearance of the giant lizards and other creatures, but was by no means the sole cause, a team concluded in a study published in Nature Communications.
Of 24 mollusk species which went extinct at one Atlantic island,...