15-06-2016 12:00 via theguardian.com

New study finds evidence for a 'fast' dinosaur extinction | Howard Lee

New sediment data suggests the dinosaurs were rapidly done in, strengthening asteroid impact theory
Boring is beautiful when you’re studying a calamity, especially one as spectacular as the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. That’s because exciting sediments, full of variations and gaps, make it hard to disentangle the extinction signal from the noise of natural variability.So you could say that James Witts, of the University of Leeds in the UK, lucked-out with an especial
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