K/T MASS EXTINCTION: WHAT REALLY KILLED OFF THE DINOSAURS?

The Guardian ^ | 13 November 2003 | Ian Sample

[Doodle]

Association is not necessarily causation.

[js1138]

Smoking seems to have killed this thread.

[PatrickHenry]

The thread's been tossed into the "chat" ghetto. I guess that's better than the smokey backroom. Well, when you've seen one dino thread, you've seen them all.

[Mike Darancette]

PING

[Mike Darancette]

I'll agree with you Canada, the BFR got the Dinos if there was extensive volcanism it too was triggered by the 10KM monster.

[keithtoo]

Multi-national corporations!!!!!!!

[fiscally_right]

Bahahaha

[LiteKeeper]

It is called "drowning" in a Flood.

[blam]

"The fact remains that above the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary the fossil record of Dinasuars ends, and the iridium has been found at that layer all over the planet."

Yup. Along with an ash layer from all the trees that burned.

From the December edition of Scientific American,

The Day The World Burned

[jennyp]

Alternative extinction scenarios:

Is This What Killed The Dinosaurs? New Evidence Supports Volcanic Eruption Theory.

Didja notice that Prof. Keller is also the person they quote here?

Hydrogen Sulfide, Not Carbon Dioxide, May Have Caused Largest Mass Extinction.

This article is about the Permian extinction 251 mya.

Here are some more theories about the K-T extinction, from the CrEvo:TED archives (natch):

• 'Dinos were doomed before meteors struck' (global cooling)
• Dinosaurs experienced climate changes before K-T collision
• Report: Climate change didn't kill dinosaurs
• Mass-extinction controversy flares again (earlier claims by Keller's team of fossil plankton living in Chicxulub crater for 300,000 years post-impact)
• Dinosaur demise theory, version #451 (it's all a house-o-cards!)
• Earth Suffered Pulses of Misery in Global Wildfires of 65 Million Years Ago (continent-wide wildfires after Chicxulub impact)

And on a related note:

• Scientists hope to get more accurate Earth history ("...But geologists can't date the impact to within a million years, making it uncertain whether the collision preceded or followed the dinosaurs' extinction.")

[PatrickHenry]

Great stuff. We can always count on you for good links.

[Consort]

A black market/poaching in dinosaur eggs.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic was posted 11/14/2003. Thanks Mike Darancette.

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