An article published this month in the journal “Science” describes a research that brings evidence to support the theory that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by the combination of the impact of an asteroid and a strong volcanism caused precisely by that event. About 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, the impact of an asteroid near today’s Yucatan peninsula might have caused exceptional phenomena of volcanism in India, in the area known as the Deccan Traps.