From our standpoint 66 million years later, it's easy to assume the demise of the dinosaurs was an inevitability. But an international team of researchers is making a radical argument for why that may not be the case: Had the asteroid that likely wiped out the dinosaurs slammed into the planet a few minutes earlier or later, the scientists say, the fabled reptiles could still be walking the earth now.
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