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When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic.
Kenneth Lacovara
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Kenneth Lacovara
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 11
Paleontologist
New Jersey
United States
Kenneth John Lacovara
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