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How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs?

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How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs? Kinjal, age 11 , from Delhi , India , asks: How could roaches a couple of inches long survive when so many powerful animals went extinct? It turns out that they were nicely equipped to live through a meteoric catastrophe.

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