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"Dino 'survival' claim disputed"
By Paul Rincon, BBC News Online science
Thursday, 5 February, 2004, 10:31 GMT
"Convention dictates dinosaurs were extinct before the Tertiary. The idea that
dinosaurs survived for some time after the asteroid impact blamed for wiping
them out sixty-five million years ago has been dealt a blow."
"Dinosaur egg fragments dug out of rocks in China seem to postdate the dramatic
extinction event popularly believed to have extinguished the creatures."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3458651.stm
Mary