It seems almost certain that an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs. But only almost. Another competing theory won’t completely go away: the extinction-by-volcano theory.
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It Was an Asteroid, Not Volcanoes, That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs, New Study Finds – Science Alert
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