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Questions for Discussion: What Killed the Dinosaurs?
- Which hypothesis has the most evidence in support of it? Which has the least? If
you were to choose, which evidence would you find the most compelling?
- What would need to happen for one hypothesis to become a more accepted theory
about the extinction?
- Why would the fossil record be so inconclusive, with different interpretations of the
time it took dinosaurs to become extinct?
- What do you think killed the dinosaurs? Explain reasons for your choice.
- Why is it important to us to understand the cause of this mass extinction?
