[00:00.00]Scientists say they can now definitively back, the long held theory
[00:04.44]that a huge asteroid striking the earth some 65 million years ago
[00:08.41]was responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs
[00:10.90]and more than half of all animal species on the planet.
[00:13.54]The scientists finally discounted an alternative theory
[00:16.90]that volcanic eruptions caused the dinosaur's demise.
[00:20.01]Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports.
[00:22.85]The popular conception is that dinosaur's reign supreme
[00:27.12]until they were suddenly eradicated from the face of the planet.
[00:31.25]The theory goes that a giant asteroid crashed into the earth,
[00:34.86]wiping out half of all life on earth.
[00:37.61]Some scientists though say that those evidences that dinosaur survived the asteroid impact
[00:42.65]and became extinct some 300,000 years later.
[00:46.01]But a new analysis of all the available research
[00:48.80]has backed the view that it was a giant asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Scientists say they can now definitively back, the long held theory
that a huge asteroid striking the earth some 65 million years ago
was responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs
and more than half of all animal species on the planet.
The scientists finally discounted an alternative theory
that volcanic eruptions caused the dinosaur's demise.
Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports.
The popular conception is that dinosaur's reign supreme
until they were suddenly eradicated from the face of the planet.
The theory goes that a giant asteroid crashed into the earth,
wiping out half of all life on earth.
Some scientists though say that those evidences that dinosaur survived the asteroid impact
and became extinct some 300,000 years later.
But a new analysis of all the available research
has backed the view that it was a giant asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.