Dinosaur Graveyard May Unearth New Reasons For Their Extinction

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

[Fred Nerks]

Mega- breccia Ries Crater:

Any exterrestrial metallica discovered in that crater?

IMPACT DATA BASE (LINK)

[jan in Colorado]

Thanks for the graphics Fred!

[Cold Heart]

I often have problems with the Time/Money units.

[Gondring]

Article reminds me of this.

[SunkenCiv]

The point isn’t that the rail line gets to where it’s supposed to go; Spain has a socialist gov’t now. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[onedoug]

Thanks. Gee I like this God stuff.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Why would a find 15 million years before the probable meteor/comet collision tell them how the rest of the dinosaurs died?

It does tell them about local population densities (assuming herd and carnivore behavior), but that doesn’t indicate how the species died later.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hey! No fair!

You copied my test question before I got a chance to hand it in! 8<)

[Elsie]

“Everything indicates that the dino-sours were enjoying great evolutionary vigour when they suddenly disappeared,” said José Luis Sanz, the co-director of the dig.

Can they tell if they drowned?

[Elsie]

The sweet and SOUR kind.

[Elsie]

I think they meant 65 feet LONG bodies.

[Elsie]

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

Oh RATS!

(But thanks for the info about WHY!)

[Elsie]

Just HOW many times now have I told you to...

TRIM THEM NAILS FIRST!!!!

[Constitution Day]

A bit of movie trivia related to your post:

Nördlingen, Germany is the town in your aerial photo.
It's the town that that Willy Wonka, Grandpa Joe and Charlie fly over in the glass elevator during the closing sequence of the original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" movie.

[BenLurkin]

The way scientific theories keep changing nobody should take them too seriously.

[GourmetDan]

“I believe in Cosmos almighty, Maker of the heavens and the earth.

“And in Darwin, the only enlightened Son of Cosmos, our Lord who was conceived of first cousins, born into an inbred family, suffered under the Church of Rome for his enlightenment, died and was buried. He was resurrected by athiestic science and ascended to the right hand of Cosmos where all biological truth is judged according to his ideas.

“I believe in chance and selection, the supremacy of nature, the collective opinion of scientists, the evolutionary justification of all behavior, the survival of the fittest and the end of life at death.”

Amen

[SunkenCiv]

The answer is in the original article — that it was believed that there was a gradual decline.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)