FOSSIL OF 67-MILLION-YEAR-OLD RAPTOR FOUND IN NEW MEXICO

The origin of life is one of the great scientific mysteries yet to be solved, and when it comes to dinosaurs, so is the origin of death. Scientists have debated for ages how the terrible thunder lizards met their terrible end. Perhaps the greatest explanation was mass constipation, which — as detailed in the book After the Dinosaurs — experts posited to have resulted from herbivorous dinosaurs munching on hard-to-digest flowering plants that emerged 65 million years ago. But as time passed and better evidence accumulated, that theory went the way of the dinosaurs.
One of the most widely adopted explanations is that an asteroid rained cataclysmic extinction onto the dinosaurs, but some experts insist that the asteroid simply accelerated the inevitable. For instance, in 2016, the Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences published a statistical analysis indicating that dinos began dying off in significant quantities tens of millions of years before the asteroid finished the job. However, per the Independent, in 2019, researchers at the Imperial College of London looked at the North American fossil record and concluded that "Dinosaurs were likely not doomed to extinction until the end of the Cretaceous, when the asteroid hit." Now, the newly discovered remains of a raptor have added more fuel to the fire of scientific conflict.
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