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Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of ... According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic ...

after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The feathered creature thrived during the Cretaceous period, and continued to do so even after an Earth-shattering asteroid strike 66million years ago.