[Gator113]

That must have a bad day.

How long will it take the next species to determine what sent us into extinction?

[bigbob]

Well, if Reuters says so, it must be so.

[CholeraJoe]

In other news - Global Warming was a hoax.

[a fool in paradise]

A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs

Consensus again? As with Global Warming?

[sodpoodle]

They are lying. I have done extensive research since Friday and without revealing the data, I can say without equivocation : The demise of the dinosaur species was due to sun spot activity over a protracted period, diminishing food supplies of vegetation and prey.

Unable to grow their own vegetable gardens and domesticate livestock the dinosaurs succumbed to inadequate nutritional sustenance -required for large body mass ratios.

[bayliving]

Too bad they didn't have doctors back then...

They could have had their asteroids surgically removed and they would have felt MUCH better for it!

I know I felt better after MY asteroid surgery.

[rwfromkansas]

Frankly, this has been known for decades....there were people that thought the volcanoes caused it, but that was honestly lunacy.

A crater that size was an extinction-level event. A big one.

[Little Pig]

So does this mean that the “Shiva” crater isn’t a crater? The latest theory (prior to this one, anyway) was that the Chicxulub impactor was only a fragment from the main impactor which hit off the coast of modern India. That main impactor also either triggered or worsened the Deccan trap eruptions.

[decimon]

Some more:

Revisiting chicxulub

30 years later, what killed the dinosaurs is revisited

[jaz.357]

Show the proof!

[married21]

Well, whatever the cause, I’m glad they’re gone. Could you imagine if they were alive today and we had to put aside land to protect them?

Idaho rancher to wife:
Um, no, honey, it wasn’t the wolves that got the sheep this time...

[JoeProBono]

[count-your-change]

Let's see...big asteroid hits...fireball circles the earth killing most dinosaurs......burning vegetation so there's no food for the dinosaurs....big question...how did the birds survive? What of all the flying insects?

[SunkenCiv]

A bunch of Deccan Traps Deniers!!! Probably in the employ of the asteroid industry!

A panel of 41 scientists from across the world reviewed 20 years' worth of research to try to confirm the cause of the so-called Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction, which created a "hellish environment" around 65 million years ago and wiped out more than half of all species on the planet. The new study, conducted by scientists from Europe, the United States, Mexico, Canada and Japan and published in the journal Science, found that a 15-kilometre (9 miles) wide asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub in what is now Mexico was the culprit.

But seriously -- hey, about d@##ed time. Thanks Free ThinkerNY.

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[Sopater]

The only plausible explanation?

[PapaBear3625]

Scientific opinion was split over whether the extinction was caused by an asteroid or by volcanic activity in the Deccan Traps in what is now India, where there were a series of super volcanic eruptions that lasted around 1.5 million years.

Could it be that the asteroid impact triggered the volcanic activity? I imagine a big impact would have sent shock-waves all the way to the other side of the Earth.

[Trillian]

I wish I could find a picture of homer simpson sneezing on them and then all of them dropping dead LOL

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Without access to their Flintstones vitamins, Dino the dinosaur, and his friends, withered away and died... < :(

[bmwcyle]

The debate is over!!!