
Wednesday Aug 27, 2025
Were dinosaurs really in decline? Spoiler alert: nope.
A new study using occupancy modeling suggests that dinosaurs in North America were not in long-term decline before the asteroid impact but instead remained widespread until the end of the Cretaceous. The apparent drop in diversity reflects geological and preservation biases in the fossil record rather than a true biological collapse.
Read the full article at https://www.paperleap.com/admin/blog/articles/were-dinosaurs-really-in-decline-spoiler-alert-nope-0ccccf
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