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Article: Rising sea-levels wiped out dinosaurs: study.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- July 23, 2008
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Rising sea-levels wiped out dinosaurs: study
London, July 23 (PTI) A new theory to explain mass extinctions has suggested that rising sea-levels may have been responsible for the demise of the ferocious dinosaurs.
"One of the remarkable things about this work is that it is a statistical smoking gun. It's in the background for all extinctions, but it's predictive about which species are more likely to survive and which will go extinct," says Shanan Peters, a professor of geology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States.
Peters' study, published in the journal Nature, argues that it was changing sea levels that was responsible ...