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Welcome to the Kotkeye ride home for Thursday, July 8th, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird.

New findings in the debate about whether the dinosaurs were actually already in sharp decline before the asteroid hit the Earth.

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Since at least the early 90s, when the full discovery of the Chick-Sloob crater gave weight

to the impact hypothesis, it's been pretty universally agreed that non-avian dinosaurs

went extinct 66 million years ago due to a huge comets or

asteroid. But a question that comes up every now and then is if there were other factors at play

in their extinction leading up to the impact event. At the end of last month, a new paper was

published in the journal Nature Communications that argues that dinosaurs had already been in decline for 10 million years leading up to the asteroid impact, a combination of climate change and decreasing biodiversity.

Quoting inverse.

Further analyses indicate that the global dinosaur decline could have been precipitated

by the decline of herbivores, explains lead author Fabian Condamine, a research scientist at the

French National Center for Scientific Research, adding that herbivores are essential keystone species

in ecosystems. His research suggests dinosaurs weren't able to recover from these dual blows.

The rates of new species of dinosaurs emerging could not keep up with the extinction rates,

leading to a decline in dinosaur diversity. In fact, the dinosaur decline was so severe. Condamine

and his colleagues posit that the T-Rex may have only had one species left on planet Earth

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