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101 Ways To Kill The Dinosaurs

Posted by timothy on from the russian-roulette-writ-large dept.

blank writes "Everyone knows there are many impact craters on Earth; around 170 in fact. This article from the Seattle PI points out that more than one of those impacts could have caused the extinction of the Dinosaurs. In Ukraine, scientists found that a well-known crater had been inaccurately dated - the correct date puts the impact sometime around when the Dinosaurs disappeared..."

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  1. Catastrophism vs. Gradualism by Psion · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let's not forget that many species of dinosaurs were in decline well before the k-t event that is generally accepted as the point (65mya) when dinosaurs went extinct. Although the idea of a big rock killing all the dinosaurs is popular with geologists and catastrophists, many paleontologists still don't buy this explanation. Some even point to birds as the direct descendents of theropods and insist that dinosaurs never really went extinct in the first place.