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Alvarez hypothesis

  1. The theory that the mass extinction that involved the dinosaurs and many other living things was caused by the impact of a large asteroid on the Earth sixty-five million years ago.


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The hypothesis is named after the father-and-son team of scientists Luis and Walter Alvarez, who first suggested it.
Evidence indicates that the asteroid fell in the Yucatan peninsula .

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