A Science study found that dinosaurs in New Mexico lived within 400,000 years of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, contradicting claims that those dinosaurs were millions of years older than the extinction event.
Sources
- The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2025, From Preserved Blood ... (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fossils-new-mexico-dinosaurs-thriving-before-asteroid-strike-study/ (cbsnews.com)
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dinosaurs-thriving-extinction-asteroid-new-mexico (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/science/new-mexico-dinosaur-site (cnn.com)
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dinosaurs-thriving-before-asteroid (sciencenews.org)
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