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Dino Extinction Paved Way for Grapes—and Wine—to ‘Spread Across the World’

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The extinction of the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago may have helped facilitate the spread of grapes around the ...

Great megafauna mystery solved? Humans really did drive ancient giants to extinction

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Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. More and more research shows that this species – and at least 46 other ...

Asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs halted a key process for life on Earth, scientists say

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