What was the Cretaceous-ending event that wiped out the dinos 65 million
years ago? It is doubtful it was a single giant meteorite blast in Mexico.
Evidence also points to the Chicxulub impact being part of a multiple impact
part of history, and also that it was well over a quarter of a
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66345,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4
Meteor Impact Theory Takes a Hit
By Amit Asaravala
Wired News
January 20, 2005
The catastrophe that killed off the majority of life on Earth 250
million years ago was not a meteorite impact, but a gradual rise in
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:59:49 -0800 (PST), Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We all assumed in the scientific community that if one extinction could
be caused by an impact, they all could, said Peter Ward, a University
of Washington paleontologist and lead author of the new study. I went
(to
These guys won't be happy until one smacks them in the head!
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Hi,
All these the asteroid didn't do it papers are a good sign. I remember
the more than 10 years it took to swing opinion on the Cretacious-ending
event. We had all the same but, but, but proposals. We were told that the
number of species of dinosaurs had been declining for millions of
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