ERIC Number: EJ447797
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1992
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Counting the DEAD: Did the Dinosaurs and Their Contemporaries Die Out with a Bang or a Whimper?
Monastersky, Richard
Science News, v141 n5 p72-75 Feb 1 1992
Researchers who study the fossil record are seeking to determine whether the impact made by a comet or meteor really did decimate up to half of the life on this planet at the end of the Cretaceous period. Questions whether the extinction of plant and animal life was abrupt, started before the impact, or was a gradual change. (KR)
Descriptors: Archaeology, Evolution, Paleontology, Plants (Botany), Science Education, Scientific Research
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Teachers; Researchers; Practitioners
Language: English
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