[presidio9]

Article from a March issue of The New York Times suggested that volcanism killed the dinosaurs.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And all these years, I thought it was SUVs.

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ping

[Sabertooth]

((((((growl)))))

[pabianice]

I see. And the unicorn and jabberwocky went extinct because...?

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[qam1]

THis article is not true, In fact it was the opposite that occured, Lower levels of Oxygen killed off the Dinosaurs

Last gasp for the dinosaurs

Gary Landis, of the US Geological Survey, measured oxygen in microscopic air bubbles trapped in amber, a fossilised tree resin. He found that the amount of oxygen dropped from 35 per cent 2 million years before the end of the Cretaceous period, to 28 per cent just after the end of the Cretaceous - the time when the dinosaurs all but disappeared. Today, the oxygen level is at 21 per cent...

Most scientists agree the impact of an asteroid or meteor was the catalyst.

Not true either, Dumb Reporters think it sounds counds cool so they report it as such but most scientist do not, The only ones that claim to believe in the silly Asteroid Hypothesis just want a free trip to Cancun

[AdmSmith]

A lot of food for your ping list

[DannyTN]

I think Dinosaurs were soil factories.

What better way to build up top soil than these huge creatures that could eat the tops of trees?

[Doctor Stochastic]

One thing that is misleading in the article is the conflation of absolute oxygen pressure with partial pressure. At 14000 feet today (or 4593.1785 metres for the Europeans), the total pressure is quite low compared to sea level but the oxygen-nitrogen ratio is nearly the same. A low partial pressure of oxygen at sea level doesn't imply high-altitude conditions.

[gcruse]

There's something to be said for theories that start out with some physical evidence. It helps direct the inquiry and gets rid of a lot of silliness up front.

[Redcloak]

"I don't know of any brontosaurus that could fly"

All that would be needed is a tall cliff and a running start.