By now, most people are familiar with the theory that an asteroid that smacked into our planet 66 million years ago caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. But it turns out that dinosaurs might not have been the only casualty of that cataclysmic event. New analysis of the fossil record indicates that a full 93 percent of mammals living at the time also went extinct, a number significantly higher than previously thought.
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via http://www.gizmag.com/
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