The Alvarez theory, developed in 1980 by physicist Luis Walter Alvarez and his geologist son Walter Alvarez, maintains that the secondary effects of an asteroid impact caused many dinosaurs and other animals to die __ it left unexplored the question of whether unrelated volcanic activity might have also contributed to the mass extinctions.

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