Kairos Reports
Menu
News United States 1 publication 1 min read

The asteroid killed the dinosaurs. Why did crocodiles survive?

ScienceDaily's headline. Reported by ScienceDaily.

File picture: Arild Vågen via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

What ScienceDaily reported

Scientists may have solved a 66-million-year-old mystery: how crocodiles survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. A sweeping analysis of fossils and ancient climates suggests that their preference for warm environments placed them in tropical refuges that remained habitable even after the

The publisher's own words, quoted for review. Every outlet carrying the story is listed below with its link.

Who is covering it

  1. ScienceDaily United States The asteroid killed the dinosaurs. Why did crocodiles survive? Scientists may have solved a 66-million-year-old mystery: how crocodiles survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. A sweeping analysis of fossils and ancient climates suggests that their preference for warm environments placed them in tropical refuges that remained habitable even after the 5 h ago · Tier 3

Headlines and excerpts are the publishers' own, shown under quotation for review and linked to the originals.

More from Technology

File picture: Dietmar Rabich via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Technology · Science

Scientists reveal a hidden snakebite crisis killing up to 513,000 people a year

A startling new study suggests that venomous snakebites are killing far more people worldwide than official statistics indicate, with an estimated 274,000 to 513,000 deaths every year. Researchers found that as many as 7 million people could suffer snake envenoming annually, while more than 800,000 Excerpt, ScienceDaily

Source ScienceDaily