Monday, September 19, 2011

Ancient impact killed birds too

 According to recent studies scientists concluded  that prehistoric birds went extinct the same way dinosaurs did, U.S. researchers say, that birds were also victims of the same meteorite impact 65 million years ago. Their has been many debates between scientists about the controversy whether archaic birds, died out slowly over time or were killed off by the giant impact in the Gulf of Mexico. Researchers from Yale University say fossil evidence shows the birds were going strong right up until the time of the impact, and then mostly disappeared. Researchers examined a large collection of bird fossils discovered in North America representing a wide range of the species that existed during the Cretaceous period. The fossils of those birds are not found in later times. To me i think that the scientists should keep on looking for more data because they might find a fossil of the archaic birds in a longer time than the ones they found.

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