Volcanoes or Asteroids?

The Debates on Dino Doom Never End!

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When I was in high school in the depths of the last century, I wrote a term paper on dinosaur extinction theories. The number of conjectures was so long it was easy to achieve the required word count just by listing them! Two that continue to wrestle for top contender involve global climate change caused by either a massive asteroid strike or long-term intensive volcanic activity in the Deccan Traps of India. Many have accepted the asteroid theory, but it now appears the pendulum is