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Claim: Dinosaurs were minutes away from surviving extinction - C C - May 24, 2017
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dinosaurs-survive-extinction-asteroid-minutes-event-research-scientists-a7744031.html
EXCERPT: From our standpoint 66 million years later, it's easy to assume the demise of the dinosaurs was an inevitability. But an international team of researchers is making a radical argument for why that may not be the case: Had the asteroid that likely wiped out the dinosaurs slammed into the planet a few minutes earlier or later, the scientists say, the fabled reptiles could still be walking the earth now. That conclusion makes up one of the most intriguing revelations in The Day the Dinosaurs Died, a BBC Two documentary that was filmed across three continents during the past year before airing this week. How is it possible dinosaurs could still be alive?
ALSO: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/sifter/would-dinosaurs-still-be-around-if-asteroid-hit-moments-later