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Earliest alligator flourished in the wake of the dinosaur extinction

Science | 2026-09-11 at 17:00 UTC | Source: www.newscientist.com
Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North America
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