Un professeur de l’université Reading tente de démontrer la théorie selon laquelle les dinosaures étaient déjà sur le déclin lorsque l’astéroide apocalyptique a touché la Terre il y a environs 66 millions d’annéea.
Deux citations intéressantes du professeur Sakamoto:
“While the asteroid impact is still the prime candidate for the dinosaurs’ final disappearance, it is clear that they were already past their prime in an evolutionary sense,”
“While a sudden apocalypse may have been the final nail in the coffin, something else had already been preventing dinosaurs from evolving new species as fast as old species were dying out.”
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