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Scientists To Drill Into 'Ground Zero' of the Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: This month, a drilling platform will rise in the Gulf of Mexico, but it won't be aiming for oil. Scientists will try to sink a diamond-tipped bit into the heart of Chicxulub crater — the buried remnant of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs, along with most other life on the planet. They hope that the retrieved rock cores will contain clues to how life came back in the wake of the cataclysm, and whether the crater itself could have been a home for novel microbial life. And by drilling into a circular ridge inside the 180-kilometer-wide crater rim, scientists hope to settle ideas about how such 'peak rings,' hallmarks of the largest impact craters, take shape.
If the drill samples turn out to be a green or black sludge that seems to move by itself, toss it back down the hole and pour in a bunch of concrete.
Everyone should know that by now.
Actually, as the dominant species they had privilege at that point, and were brought down by a coalition of minority species, lead by the long oppressed mammals. The mammals convinced the dinosaurs that there needed to be fewer negative (or at least problematic) representations of mammals in contemporary video games.
The changes that were made to video games to fit in with the mammalists caused the dominance of dinosaurs to disappear. Now they're reduced to a bunch of feathered flying rats, who occasionally take a (white) crap on mammal society, but are otherwise harmless.