Dinosaurs died of rickets

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August 4, 1928 | Vol. 14 | No. 382

Dinosaurs died of rickets

Thirty-five-ton dinosaurs, that languidly lived and loved in the slimy lagoons of the Mesozoic Age, some 135,000,000 years ago, probably disappeared off the earth because their supply of ultra-violet light was cut off by vast clouds of volcanic dust obscuring the face of the sun.