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Dinosaur fossil takes meteor theory by the horns

The theory that a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs has gained greater plausibility after Yale University researchers discovered a timely dinosaur fossil.

The fossil, a ceratopsian horn, comes from a dinosaur which could have lived up to one year before a huge asteroid hit Earth 65 million years ago.

The discovery makes the theory that dinosaurs coincidentally died out before the meteor-strike less likely.

Read more at Yale University

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