Scientists reach a consensus on what killed the Dinosaurs!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8550504.stm

A nine mile wide asteroid crashing into Mexico! Neat.

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Blog for dinosaur news!! Updates pretty regularly. Seems they haven't picked up on this new development quite yet, tho.

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picture is lol

Haha fuck I meant to put that in the opening post, it was totally why I picked that article to link to.

BBC guy: "But this all happened 65 million years ago, so we'll never know for sure."

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mind-blowing stuff, though a serious contender for news that reads like an Onion article

He added: "The explosion of hot rock and gas would have looked like a huge ball of fire on the horizon, grilling any living creature in the immediate vicinity that couldn't find shelter."

Dr Joanna Morgan, another co-author from Imperial, commented: "The final nail in the coffin for the dinosaurs happened when blasted material was ejected at high velocity into the atmosphere. This shrouded the planet in darkness and caused a global winter, killing off many species that couldn't adapt to this hellish environment."

I have it on no lesser authority than the Pumaman himself that the dinosaurs died out because they forgot how to luuuuv.

After the impact all their Barry White record got scratched and wouldn't play. Also dust and ash can play havoc with your stylus.

http://www.rareresource.com/cryolophosaurus%20ellioti.htm

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i always thought the dinosaurs died in a plane crash...

and were memorialized by Don McLean as the day the Jurassic Period died

65,000,000 B.C. We Will Never Forget :(

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I bet that was one loud ass bang when the asteroid hit.

so much hot dino action was ruined that day ;_;

http://tv.gawker.com/5484963/the-discovery-channel-answers-your-questions-about-dinosaur-sex

I prefer the Creationist theory which posits that "dinosaurs" were likely the same creatures classified as dragons in Asian folklore, and were likely driven to extinction by Noah's flood, or something like that.

loud ass bang
loud ass bang
loud ass bang

^ a GIS I'd like to see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTUA_wdp78

Here's what really killed the dinosaurs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idEcvdL_zHA
...really bad acting some twonk called Adric.

oh, adric

The fall of Atlantis killed the dinosaurs, in a giant nuclear explosion.

I read this book crazy book where this guy theorized dinosaurs evolved an advanced civilization (Atlantis) at the end of Cretaceous which was destroyed by their own bombs and moved underground with their UFO's which they continue to use to this day. Somehow human males' lack of a penis bone was evidence of this.

not all of us lack the historic penis bone.

http://www.lustyghost.com/images/achewood_bone_on.gif

seriously what are the odds of this happening again?

giant asteroid, i mean, not dinosaurs.

I thought you meant a funny achewood strip OH SNAP

LOL

None of the other major mass extinctions from the last 540 million years are associated with signatures of asteroid impact like widespread shocked quartz ejecta or iridium spikes. The end-Cretaceous extinction event was by no means the most destructive, its just the last spike on this graph the fraction of genera going extinct at any given time.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Extinction_intensity.svg/400px-Extinction_intensity.svg.png

I'm impressed instead by the theory that most mass extinctions are climate events initiated by flood basalts and massive C02 injections. Subsequent effects include catastrophic global warming, liberation of seabed methanes, ocean stratification, anoxia and photic-zone euxinia (permitting sulfur-reducing bacteria to live near surface), releases of H2S, destruction of the ozone layer, and massive dieoff of land genera, and tremendous erosion. More or less in that order. Peter Ward summarizes this here, and there's increasing evidence from molecular biomarkers like isorenieratene, which is only produced in extinction scenarios like this one.

So, the chance that all of your descendants will die in an asteroid impact seems to be less than thought a decade ago, when paleontologists and geologists were busy scouring all mass extinction horizons for signs of impacts. No, the fruits of life will die in a slower, more insidious and painful manner.

ah, well then. i can go back to work.

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