Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Dinosaurs were already going extinct when an asteroid wiped them out, a new study suggests.
Researchers found many species had been dying out for 10 million years by the time a space rock smashed into Earth 66 million years ago.The catastrophe triggered a mass extinction which allowed mammal species like ourselves to rise to the top of the food chain. "We find that the diversity of dinosaurs declined from 76 million years ago," study lead researcher Fabien Condamine told Live Science.
The study found extinction rates were outpacing the evolution of new species across six dino-groups long before the asteroid hit - and climate change could have been the underlying cause.But other.
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