Maybe an Asteroid Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs

Time CNN ^ | Monday, Apr. 27, 2009 | Jeffrey Kluger

[antiunion person]

I know what caused the death of the dinosaurs, global warming. Al Gore blames everything on that, so it must be the cause. I bet one cave man was there, started a fire to keep warm and global warming began.

[PeteB570]

“I know what caused the death of the dinosaurs, global warming.”

And those Dinosaurs drove humongus SUVs.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Global flood.

[MrB]

They were probably around after the flood,

but a whole bunch of yayhoos in armor, out to prove themselves by killing a “dragon”, exterminated them.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Deccan Traps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps

[RegulatorCountry]

No, ancient global warming was due to all those gigantic dinousaurs, which were largely herbivores, emitting earth-shattering farts. The warming was OK by them, since they were coldblooded, but it ultimately proved to be their undoing. The asteroid set off the gas. KABOOM! That’s where precious gems come from; when the force of the exploding, methane-drenched atmosphere forced dead dinosaur carcasses deep underground, under tremendous pressure. Natural gas was trapped in those carcasses, too, which is why it stinks.

(Do I really need a < /sarc> tag, lol?)

[Doe Eyes]

Global flood.

They would have survived on Noah's Ark.

[Verginius Rufus]

All those dinosaurs would have sunk Noah’s Ark. Particularly if they went clomping around like Calvin does when he thinks he a dinosaur.

[hosepipe]

What snuffed the dinos?...

answer: second hand smoke..

[traderrob6]

Theories are only that and true scientists do their best to disprove them through the scientific method. Something that has been sorely lacking in most discussions of AGW.

[cripplecreek]

a whole bunch of yayhoos in armor, out to prove themselves by killing a “dragon”, exterminated them.

A-HA. The evil white male libido and bloodlust did them in. After all, they killed dragons to hook up with the fair maidens.

[ETL]

This is not exactly a new story. The scientist gave a lecture on her theory at the American Museum of Natural History in New York more than 4 years ago. Following the talk, I asked her about the massive volcanoes that were going off in India about the same time of the dinosaur extinction (the Deccan Traps), and whether or not they could have played a role in the dinosaurs' demise. She said she didn't think so. However, according to the article linked to in this thread, she apparently has changed her mind on this. Interesting.

From the article...

"So if the Chicxulub asteroid didn't kill the dinosaurs, what did? Paleontologists have advanced all manner of other theories over the years, including the appearance of land bridges that allowed different species to migrate to different continents, bringing with them diseases to which native species hadn't developed immunity. Keller and Addate do not see any reason to stray so far from the prevailing model. Some kind of atmospheric haze might indeed have blocked the sun, making the planet too cold for the dinosaurs — it just didn't have to have come from an asteroid. Rather, they say, the source might have been massive volcanoes, like the ones that blew in the Deccan Traps in what is now India at just the right point in history."

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1894225,00.html?xid=rss-healthsci-yahoo

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[org.whodat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfFPfkLVW3Q

[PapaBear3625]

National Geographic has an article suggesting that changing atmospheric oxygen levels had something to do with it.

[kenth]

Sport Utility Velociraptor?

[raygunfan]

the post flood world just wasnt hospitable....plain and simple..unless you believe in secular fairy tales...

[looois]

This is all wrong. What killed off the dinosaurs is the last generation of dinosaur babies all turned out to be gay.