Scientists Find Last Dinosaur Before Mass Extinction

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A lone dinosaur horn is the last remaining part of the youngest dinosaur preserved before the catastrophic end to the Age of Dinosaurs, researchers said Wednesday.
The leading culprit for the end of the Age of Dinosaurs is a catastrophic meteor strike about 65 million years ago. Although it is now widely accepted that a cosmic impact took place about then -- a time known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary, or K-T boundary -- it was unclear if the mass extinctions started gradually before the hit, perhaps due to volcanoes or other factors.


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