New study released Thursday in the American ‘Science’ magazine challenged the well-known asteroid theory, leading to conclusions of how the dinosaurs disappeared from our planet.

According to previous knowledge and research, the mass extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by the impact of a large asteroid on the Earth, called the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Evidence indicated that the asteroid fell in the Yucatán Peninsula, at Chicxulub, Mexico.

The...