Dinosaur Graveyard May Unearth New Reasons For Their Extinction

The Times (UK) ^ | 11-29-2007

[SunkenCiv]

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[wildbill]

Hmmm. Reminds me of the old legend of the ‘Elephant’s Graveyard” where old elephants went to die.

The question is why did all these dinos come to this spot to die. Perhaps they were herded there by mammoths?

(haven’t seen a mammoth story lately so I thought I’d prompt something.)

[Admin Moderator]

I have to pull that, because of a copyright complaint by Gary Larson.

[SunkenCiv]

:')

[SunkenCiv]

must have been based on this:

[SunkenCiv]

thagomizer

Google

[SunkenCiv]

No way. The mammoths were able to travel much further, because they had trunks...

[Verginius Rufus]

How an 80-million-year-old site is going to solve the mystery of something that happened 15 million years later is beyond me. Would exploring a 15-million year-old graveyard help us understand why the mammoths or the dodos became extinct?

[Sam Clements]

There actually still is a remnant of this species still with us today. His name is Teddy and he is a democRAT senator from Massachusetts. If his upcoming book is worth anything we will have a chance to see how he was able to get away with the murder of a young woman early in his career. Don’t hold your breath.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Absolutely not.

You are correct.

[CholeraJoe]

The dinosaurs are extinct because they smoked, drove while drinking, and tried to pick up skinhead’s women.

[Gondring]

Sweet and Sour-Dino

[wildbill]

“The mammoths were able to travel much further, because they had trunks...”

BA DA BOOM! LOL

[Southack]

"More than 100 individual Titanosaurus have been found at the site, some of them with thick armour plating on their backs, a feature not previously seen in Europe."

Well, too bad for the Evolutionary Theory that separating animals over great distances (like continents!) would cause differences in species...

[Berosus]

I must have missed something. The railway is running from Madrid, which is in the middle of Spain, to Valencia, which is on the east coast, but the dinosaur graveyard is in the west. How is it getting in the way of construction?

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.psi.edu/explorecraters/riestour.htm

For over 100 years, the Ries structure was considered to be a volcanic crater, but as we'll see on our tour, the evidence for an impact origin is overwhelming. The foundations for the reinterpretation of Ries as a meteorite impact crater came from the discovery of coesite and stishovite, high-pressure versions of quartz, by Eugene Shoemaker and Edward Chao in the 1960's.

[Broker]

Stratigraphically speaking, you put up a good graphic with that cross section. Any exterrestrial metallica discovered in that crater?

[Gondring]

Thanks for the ping!

[Fred Nerks]

Topographie und geologische Übersicht

Spanish Craters (in German.)