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<<It’s now “indisputable” that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs.>> But actually, it is.
by hownottowrite 6y ago
<<It’s now “indisputable” that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs.>>
But actually, it is.
- HugoDaniel 6y agoThis time it looks like it will be Global Warming that kill the dinosaurs.
- BLKNSLVR 6y agoOnly the poor dinosaurs, not the rich ones.
- hutzlibu 6y agoThat remains to be seen. With some major crash and money not being worth anything anymore - it will be more about claws, fangs and numbers.
- saalweachter 6y agoHow are birds faring with climate change, actually?
- Bjartr 6y agoIt'd impact migration patterns first I suspect. Well, unless migration is a circadian mediated behavior rather than a climatologically mediated one. Anyone know which it is?
- saalweachter 6y agoThere'd be a certain irony if burning dino juice (I know, I know) killed off all of the dino-descendants' competitors.
- dspillett 6y agoMy understanding is that it may have finished them off quite decidedly, at least those that were not on their way to becoming birds & others, but evidence suggests many of the large species were already in significant decline due to other pressures (there are various theories about what the main cause(s) of that was, including changes in atmosphere balance, changes in temperature, changes in food supply due to evolution elsewhere in the chain, etc.)
- Robotbeat 6y agoI recently did a review of just what happened during the asteroid/comet impact and afterward, and it was insanely bad. And not limited to near the impact site, either, as ejecta shot back into space and rained down on the whole planet. The atmospheric temperature was well above boiling, rain of fiery stones starting literally all the world’s forests on fire, earthquakes of 11 on the Richter scale. For those within visual distance of the impactor, flesh would turn to flame due to the intensity of the light. Massive inland tsunamis. Followed by years and decades of dark winter (50 degrees below average) and then 5 deg C global warming for thousands of years. Almost everything would’ve been dead on land within hours. That species survived means a few individuals survived. Something like 99% of everything living on land would’ve been killed early on. No exclusively land-based tetrapods over 25 kilograms survived.
- tolbish 6y agoI would like to learn more about these 11-on-the-Richter-scale earthquakes.
- dboreham 6y agoDinosaurs are so easily hoaxed.
- bregma 6y agoI hear the tyrannosaurs were up in arms over the hoax but it did little good. The brontosaurs were sticking their necks out but it never came to a head. The triceratops kept trying to put a fine point on the argument but alas, it came to naught.
- Naga 6y agoI thought it was strange that they highlighted that sentence as well since the rest of the article goes on to dispute that. I'm guessing whoever made the excepts didn't read the rest very well.
- SamBam 6y agoI thought it made sense. They were quoting a scientist from one study, and then showed how the next study disputes this. They were highlighting the scientific argument. I guess if you think of pull-quotes as the take-away points of the article it's confusing, but I don't usually read them that way.