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•Morocco dinosaur discovery gives clues on why they went extinct
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New fossils of abelisaurs from north Africa suggest that African dinosaurs remained diverse up to the very end.
That suggests their demise came suddenly, with the impact of a giant asteroid.
Dinosaurs may have swum out to islands searching for food, as deer and elephants do today , and some drowned.
Fossils from the Great Plains in North America may record a decline in dinosaur diversity, this may be a local phenomenon, not a global one.
It's possible global cooling in the latest Cretaceous hit higher-latitude environments hard, reducing diversity.
But the African dinosaur fauna hints that at low latitudes, dinosaurs were thriving, even diversifying.
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