Graphs Showing the Decline of Dinosaurs in Their Last 10 Million Years (IMAGE)

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Graphs Showing the Decline of Dinosaurs in Their Last 10 Million Years

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Graphs showing how speciation rate (blue) dipped and extinction rate (red) rose sharply in the last 10 million years of the age of dinosaurs. Run together, this corresponds to a rapid reduction in the number of species (black) just before the impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago.

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© Fabien L. Condamine / ISEM / CNRS

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