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Dinosaurs Died Within Hours of Asteroid Impact, says New Study

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the sudden-climate-changes dept.

colonist writes "SPACE.com reports that most dinosaurs were incinerated within hours by the 'heat pulse' of an asteroid impact 65 million years ago. The study 'Survival in the first hours of the Cenozoic' presents a scenario where the only survivors were underground or were underwater in swamps or oceans. All unprotected creatures were 'baked by the equivalent of a global oven set on broil.'"

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  1. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong. by DuckWing · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well accepted doesn't make it correct. It's still a theory, and one (I might add) that cannot be proven, unlike a few others you've quoted.

    Being a creationist, I still subscribe to the world wide flood as the reason dinosaurs are extinct. This isn'a theory, but it *is* a matter of faith, and that's what I believe.

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  2. Re:You know, thats really not funny. [NT] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually, Pearl Harbor was funny.

  3. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong. by mangu · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, it is a theory. The truth is that dinosaurs were killed in the Flood. Noah didn't make the ark big enough, so there was no space for dinosaurs. But dinosaurs were sinners, anyway, so they deserved to die.