{"id":328968,"date":"2025-10-24T11:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/328968\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:11:16","slug":"new-evidence-reveals-dinosaurs-were-thriving-right-up-to-the-moment-the-asteroid-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/328968\/","title":{"rendered":"New evidence reveals dinosaurs were thriving right up to the moment the asteroid hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Would dinosaurs have died without an asteroid strike? Here’s the science.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Among the dinosaurs that dominated the landscape in prehistoric New Mexico during this period were true giants, like the immense long-necked herbivore Alamosaurus.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can imagine the scene, one minute a jet plane-sized dinosaur was shaking the ground as it walked. The next minute the whole Earth was shaking with the energy unleashed by the asteroid,\u201d says National Geographic Explorer<\/a> Stephen Brusatte, a paleontologist from University of Edinburgh<\/a> in Scotland and an author of the study.<\/p>\n

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The finding, published Thursday in Science<\/a>, supports the idea that North America\u2019s dinosaurs were not fading away before they went out with a bang. The study also provides insight into the diversity of dinosaur species that lived in the southwestern region of North America at the end of the Cretaceous period.<\/p>\n

New dates for New Mexico\u2019s fossils\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A great deal of what paleontologists know about the fate of the non-avian dinosaurs comes from fossils discovered in western North America, particularly at the Hell Creek<\/a> and Fort Union<\/a> Formations. These rock outcrops in Montana, the Dakotas, and Wyoming preserved snapshots of land-dwelling species before and after the collision. They show that dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Edmontosaurus, and Ankylosaurus inhabited the ancient floodplains preserved around the Rocky Mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Would dinosaurs have died without an asteroid strike? Here’s the science.) Among the dinosaurs that dominated the landscape…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":328969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19776,25052,21737,163578,163577,25054,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-328968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-asteroid","9":"tag-dinosaurs","10":"tag-extinction","11":"tag-extinction-event","12":"tag-new-mexico-fossils","13":"tag-paleontology","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115428844690354173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}