A global collaboration of scientists from different countries including the US, the UK, Canada, Norway, Sweden, and Italy, have found paleontological hints that point to the major role of volcanic eruptions and climate change to the demise of the dinosaurs. To be clear, they're not saying that the mass extinction event brought about by an asteroid that struck the earth did not happen. Rather, it was the last nail on the coffin, which sealed the dinosaurs' fate.
The scientists have been studying a region in India called the Deccan Traps to piece together the events that led to the dinosaurs' extinction. Their studies have indicated that prior to the asteroid crashing into earth, volcanic eruptions around the Deccan Traps region triggered fluctuating global temperatures which placed incredible stress on the earth's ecosystems, beginning the impending doom of the dinosaurs.
These findings can also help in our understanding of the current climate crisis that the earth is in and how these phenomena are interconnected with the earth's geological and biological systems, according to the scientists.
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