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The Extinction of Dinosaurs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2017

Peter M. Sheehan
Peter M. Sheehan*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233
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That dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years is a well established fact of paleontology. But determining why dinosaurs (other than birds) became extinct has been a difficult problem for science.

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Extinctions
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The Paleontological Society Special Publications , Volume 7: Dino Fest , 1994 , pp. 411 - 424
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Copyright © 1994 Paleontological Society 

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