If the rings of Saturn are 'young', 100 million years old or younger (as mentioned in the article) then maybe, just maybe, there might be a relation between them and the dinosaurs' extinction 65 million years ago...
I would have been more surprised if the study concluded Saturn's rings were not disappearing. Not to be a smartass but is this really surprising? I'm not an astrophysicist but as far as I know debris in space either collects and combines, or it decays.
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