Posted on 04/10/2019 11:59:24 AM PDT by Candor7
Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into a shallow sea near Mexico. The impact carved out a 90-mile-wide crater and flung mountains of earth into space. Earthbound debris fell to the planet in droplets of molten rock and glass.
Ancient fish caught glass blobs in their gills as they swam, gape-mouthed, beneath the strange rain. Large, sloshing waves threw animals onto dry land, then more waves buried them in silt.
Scientists working in North Dakota recently dug up fossils of these fish: They died within the first minutes or hours after the asteroid hit, according to a paper published Friday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a discovery that has sparked tremendous excitement among paleontologists.
"You're going back to the day that the dinosaurs died," said Timothy Bralower, a Pennsylvania State University paleoceanographer who is studying the impact crater and was not involved with this work.
"That's what this is. This is the day the dinosaurs died."
About 3 in 4 species perished in what is called the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, also known as the K-Pg event or K-T extinction. The killer asteroid most famously claimed the dinosaurs.
But the T. rex and the triceratops were joined by hordes of other living things. Freshwater and marine creatures were victims, as were plants and microorganisms, including 93 percent of plankton. (A lone branch of dinosaurs, the birds, lives on.) SNIP
Mammals went underground, which eventually gave rise over 66 million years to warm blooded Republicans.
The surviving inbred ,cold blooded dinosaurs evolved into modern day Democrats like Barrack Obama,Pelosi,Cortez, Nadler and Schiff, who all have nictating membrane eyelids.
It was the worst of times, it was the best of times.....................
Ping to fossil record in the Dakotas.
Proves most of the extinction event happened within 2 hours of the asteroid impact in the Yucatan. A mammal borrow also has been found with associated fossils. proving that warm blooded animals were intelligent enough to survive by going underground.
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No...it was pretty bad. Not much good about it raining molten glass. ha ha.
And we were singing...bye bye Mississippian pie
I remember that day. My pet Tyrannosaur was killed.
Thanks.
How could you afford to feed him? My Raptor was not too tough to feed.
DRM app required to play your linked video.
Youtube has a good version by Discovery Science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpLY0YwMACE
Thanks!
Did you name him Rex?
Did you name him Rex?
That was the ‘worst of times’ part..........
What’s DRM?
“That’s what this is. This is the day the dinosaurs died.”
what absolute nonsense; none other than Dr. Dino himself, Kent Hovind, assures us that dinosaurs were in Eden, hanging out with Adam and Eve...
What’s DRM?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Encrypted video player, used by the BBC.
https://www.vdocipher.com/blog/online-drm-player-for-video/
Glad you were able to find a YouTube video of it. I’m on an Apple MacBook Pro using Safari to view it. Other than a pop-up ad showing up when I first clicked on the play button, it plays fine for me. I don’t have a DRM app (whatever it is) installed on my laptop.
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