Posted on 07/16/2011 4:39:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A fossil discovered in Montana has given new momentum to the hypothesis that dinosaurs were thriving right up until a devastating meteor hit Earth 65 million years ago, causing their extinction.
Scientists from Yale University have found what is believed to be the youngest dinosaur fossil ever found, thought to be from just before the mass extinction took place.
The discovery, described in a study published in the online edition of the journal Biology Letters, contradicts the theory that the dinosaurs slowly went extinct before the cosmic impact.
The fossil -- a 45-centimetre horn believed to be from a triceratops -- was found in Montana's Hell Creek formation. It was located just below the K-T boundary, the band of the Earth's crust that represents the time period in which the meteor struck.
One of the main problems with the meteor theory has been the lack of any non-avian dinosaur fossils buried within 10 feet of the boundary -- known as the 'three metre gap.'
The absence of fossils, some paleontologists say, indicates dinosaurs were already extinct when the cosmic impact occurred.
Yale paleontologist Tyler Lyson, lead author of the study, says the new discovery proves otherwise.
"To all of our surprise the boundary was no more than 13 centimetres above this horn, and the significance is this indicates that at least some dinosaurs were doing quite well in this locale at the time of the meteor impact," he told CTV.ca.
There is evidence that avian dinosaurs thrived up to and into the K-T boundary. In fact, they are believed to have survived the meteor and evolved into modern-day birds.
(Excerpt) Read more at ottawa.ctv.ca ...
There’s some kind of a dinosaur park just out of town that is part of the appropriate hell creek formmation.
maybe it had “last one” stamped on it...
rofl
Looks like her makeup foundation is sublimating into the surrounding atmosphere. Either that or poor attempt to blur her beard.
Damn you to Hell!
I’m sorry. I should have included a disturbing image warning.
There are rocks on the moon that came from Earth, and vice versa. How do you think that happens?
A large meteor entering the atmosphere at 20,000 mph is going to heat the atmosphere, and the expansion will cause some of it to escape, and the outlet is the nearest hole, which the meteor just punched through our protective layers.
If you take away the protective layers above the Earth, it is well understood that the atmosphere will float off into space. Look at the moon. It has no protective field, and it has no atmosphere.
Cause and effect, no?
Do you think they are correct? After all, how many other places have they dated, and found to be wrong. Like the pyramids at Giza.
In other words, these 'scientists' have turned out to be wrong, over, and over again.
Yet you depend on their claims about the 'age' of structures from ancient and still unknown civilizations.
Who built Angkor Watt?
I prefer to be informed, rather than entertained.
I would be interested to hear your explanation.
Just because I have AN answer, doesn't mean it is THE answer. So I'm always open to better ideas.
I agree that the earth is getting fatter...asked my grandkids why you always have to dig down to find ancient stuff...no answer....therefore I am right, the earth is fatter than it use to be.. Someone please find me wrong..:O)
LOL
Incineration of North America, soot worldwide, plant die-off. All point to a collapse of the food chain, and those organisms not immediately affected by the impact would starve.
Smaller critters can live on less, so the larger ones would tend to be most seriously affected.
>> “Yet you depend on their claims about the ‘age’ of structures from ancient and still unknown civilizations.” <<
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I don’t know what you’re talking about.
I just tried to answer your question; why are you so argumentative?
>> “If you take away the protective layers above the Earth, it is well understood that the atmosphere will float off into space. Look at the moon. It has no protective field, and it has no atmosphere.” <<
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Your imagination is breathtaking!
(and your understanding of geophysics is most underwhelming)
There are no “protective layers.”
The ozone of the ionisphere is as close to a vacuum as you can get; there is almost nothing there.
Gravity increased? LOL. Wow. Some people really WILL believe just about anything.
So, you are saying that then the upper layers of the atmosphere are breached, there is no loss (venting) of the atmosphere into space?
The ozone of the ionisphere is as close to a vacuum as you can get; there is almost nothing there.
For being nothing, it sure does a lot (and it's ionosphere). Let's say we totally removed the ozone layer. What do you think would happen?
OTHER THINGS WE THINK WE UNDERSTAND, but DON'T:
Tornadoes and Hurricanes. Made of NOTHING.
Contain NOTHING at all at the center.
Now... galaxies, have particles spinning round them fast, and we conclude that there must be a black hole at the center of infinite mass to keep the particles (planets/stars,etc) spinning round the center.
Tornadoes and hurricanes have particles (dirt,boards/roofing/tractor trailer rigs, houses) spinning fast round them. Are there black holes at the center of hurricanes and tornadoes?
What keeps those particles spinning round and round in circles?
So, you are saying that mass has nothing to do with gravity?
I am trying to get people to think outside the box. To argue with the ingrained 'truths' that scientists have given us, and that we believe, but that may totally incorrect.
Just like Angkor Watt. They don't really know when it was built, or who really built it.
There are archeological sites where the structures were built long, long ago when the technology needed to create them was not available, and even now we cannot explain how it was done.
Most of our KNOWLEDGE is inferred from others, and most of it is INCORRECT. For all we know, the people who built Angkor Watt WERE around when dinosaurs (very large reptiles and mammals) still roamed the Earth. Then again maybe they weren't. Whether there were dinosaurs roaming the Earth is difficult to tell just because someone engraved it on the outside of a building. Heck, at our Museum they had life size dinosaur replicas on the sidewalk OUTSIDE the building. Would future archeologists claim the dinosaurs still roamed the Earth in 2010?
And I appreciate you trying to answer my questions, and am sorry you perceived me so negatively.
True. For instance the big bang theory, and declaration by scientists that the Universe was slowing in it's expansion and would eventually all come back together and collapse into a singular point of nonexistence.
Or the even older theory that the Milky Way WAS the entire Universe.
How about this one? Our atmosphere is mostly made up of oxygen. Just ask anyone.
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