Dinosaur asteroid 7 12 2011

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Fossil discovery corroborates asteroid theory for extinction of dinosaurs

Fossil find sheds light on dinosaur extinction.

Dinosaurs may have been doomed before asteroid strike

A new study shows that certain dinosaurs were dying out before the asteroid strike.

Dinosaur extinction: scientists come up with most precise date yet

The new date supports the theory that the mass extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by an asteroid slamming into what is now Mexico.

Tyrannosaurus fossil embroiled in custody case will be returned to Mongolia

Homecoming awaits for a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus fossil, caught in a long-running custody battle between a US paleontologist and Mongolian officials.

A visitor looks at a the skull of a Tyrannosaurus rex at the all-new 14,000 square foot Dinosaur Hall permanent exhibition at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles July 7, 2011.

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