Earliest alligator flourished in the wake of the dinosaur extinction

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What happened

Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North America…

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  • Reported by New Scientist and published Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:00:00 UTC.

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