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Not to get off topic but it's worth mentioning that there's scientific debate over whether an asteroid ended the rein of dinosaurs. https://www.theatlantic.com
by chiefalchemist 6y ago
Not to get off topic but it's worth mentioning that there's scientific debate over whether an asteroid ended the rein of dinosaurs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosau...
Evidently, volcanic activity is also credited with giving rise to the dino era as well. So ending it isn't as crazy as it sounds.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/atlantic-canadian-mega-volcanoes-blamed-in-mass-extinction-1.1360527 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/atlantic-canadian-mega-volca...
- quietbritishjim 6y agoT. Rex and the Crator of Doom [1] is a great read about the actual impact site of the asteroid that (probably) wiped out (the last of) the dinosaurs. Admittedly the author is not exactly unbiased, since not only is his career built on the event but so was his father's! But still quite convincing and very interesting. [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crater-Doom-Princeton-Science-Library/dp/0691169667/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crater-Doom-Princeton-Science-Libra...