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Scientists: Asteroid has destroyed life at the poles

Ученые: Астероид уничтожил жизнь на полюсахBritish scientists believe that the death of prehistoric animals at the end of the Cretaceous period was in all hemispheres.

According to the authors of the hypothesis, the study cites many of the facts that caused the extinction of many animal species is not climate change, and the fall of a huge asteroid.

A study conducted by the British Antarctic survey of the island of Seymour and one by scientists from the universities of Leeds, refutes the fact of the catastrophe which destroyed the dinosaurs. According to the study, climate change could significantly affect the animals living in the prehistoric times at the poles.

During the study, researchers examined more than six thousand fossils, taken from Antarctica whose age is more than 70 million years.

There is an opinion that it was at this time was the largest reduction of all the inhabitants of the Northern continent. According to the theory, the fall of a huge asteroid caused the extinction of a larger number of living organisms on our planet.

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