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Scientist are arguing over the hypothesis that a combination of cataclysms doomed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, possibly the titanic volcanic eruptions in India and the meteor impact off the coast of Mexico may not have been a coincidence after all.

Researchers at University College London are suggesting that the Indian lava flows are the impact site of an earlier, larger at least 12 miles wide (that’s twice the size of the Yucatan Impact) meteor, and that evidence of the impact was submerged by up welling lava. In this view, the mass extinction of dinosaurs and other creatures was caused not by a single meteor, but by a barrage of them.

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