A newly identified ‘Hell chicken’ species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit

Were dinosaurs already on their way out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, ending the Cretaceous^[1], the geologic period that started about 145 million years ago? It’s a question that has vexed paleontologists^[2] like us^[3] for more than 40

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