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Did Oil Kill The Dinosaurs?
Oilprice.com ^ | 19-07-2016 | Dino

Posted on 07/19/2016 3:00:57 PM PDT by bananaman22

What killed the dinosaurs? It’s a question as old as – well the dinosaurs themselves, and one that everyone from school children to scientists have been asking for decades. Movies like Jurassic Park and the Land Before Time only heighten that sense of wonder and raise the stakes behind that question. Now according to a new scientific study, it seems that black gold may have been the source of the dinos’ demise.

Japanese researchers at Tohuku University and the Meteorological Research Institute authored a recent study in the research journal Scientific Reports suggesting that a meteor impact 66 million years ago on an oil rich region of Yucatan Peninsula led to the death of the dinosaurs. When the asteroid hit the vast oil deposits of Mexico, it sent thick black smoke into the atmosphere, changing the climate around the world. That soot blocked out the sun leading to a significant cooling of the planet. Equally importantly, it also led to a substantial drought around the world.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; dinosaurs; explosion; oil; paleontology; prehistory
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1 posted on 07/19/2016 3:00:58 PM PDT by bananaman22
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The asteroid impact caused a massive fracking-like effect, which raised the greenhouse gases (as well as subterranian dust) engulf the globe.


2 posted on 07/19/2016 3:03:07 PM PDT by sagar
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Wow, so oil is the devil.


3 posted on 07/19/2016 3:04:36 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: bananaman22

If the dinosaurs really were basically giant birds as the scientists are claiming, then I would expect what killed them were giant cats.


4 posted on 07/19/2016 3:05:20 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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I thought dinosaurs were oil?!


5 posted on 07/19/2016 3:05:38 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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But, but, but, if you ask any libtard, dinosaurs WERE the oil (or where it came from).


6 posted on 07/19/2016 3:05:45 PM PDT by datura
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To: MPJackal

Yep that was big oil back then


7 posted on 07/19/2016 3:05:58 PM PDT by xp38
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To: bananaman22

Gary Larson answered this question years ago. It was the cigarettes.


8 posted on 07/19/2016 3:06:09 PM PDT by lurk (T)
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To: proud American in Canada

GMTA


9 posted on 07/19/2016 3:06:12 PM PDT by datura
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To: proud American in Canada
"I thought dinosaurs were oil?!"


10 posted on 07/19/2016 3:06:50 PM PDT by sagar
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To: MPJackal

I think when it’s said in that context the correct spelling is “Debbil!”.


11 posted on 07/19/2016 3:10:25 PM PDT by katana
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To: bananaman22

This theory needs a whole lot of work.


12 posted on 07/19/2016 3:11:21 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: katana
“I think when it’s said in that context the correct spelling is “Debbil!”.”

You may be right. Momma always had trouble with that word. But momma said it.

13 posted on 07/19/2016 3:14:01 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: bananaman22

Too funny.

FR needs rules regarding just how funny a thread can be allowed to become.


14 posted on 07/19/2016 3:14:40 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: Tallguy

Yeah. It’s not quite as polished as the theory that nuclear energy created Godzilla.


15 posted on 07/19/2016 3:15:27 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: bananaman22

That theory makes more sense than anything else I have ever read...


16 posted on 07/19/2016 3:16:02 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: bananaman22

Ah ha! Another polemic in search of its science.


17 posted on 07/19/2016 3:18:53 PM PDT by JimSEA
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18 posted on 07/19/2016 3:21:23 PM PDT by seawolf101
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To: bananaman22

Prehistoric SUVs.


19 posted on 07/19/2016 3:22:53 PM PDT by wastedyears (#brexit - Make Britain Great Again)
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To: bananaman22

Another theory of the month.


20 posted on 07/19/2016 3:30:17 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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