What is the the most likely root cause of dinosaurs' extinction ?
Dinosaur extinction still remains one of the greatest enigmas of the history of our planet. Anyway, the most likely cause of the dinosaur extinction is climate change brought on by both extrinsic and intrinsic events.
The extrinsic event appears to be meteor as evidenced the crater at Chicxulub, on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico which caused massive terrestrial disturbance, which threw up soot into the air, causing short term acid rain, emission of poisonous gases, and cooling.
The intrinsic event is huge volcanic evidenced in India during the Late Cretaceous, eruptions were spewing forth floods of lava which can be seen today at the K-T boundary (these ruptures in the Earth's surface are called the Deccan traps).
More Info:
The Alvarez Hypothesis and both interinsic gradualists and extrinsic catastrophists !
What are your thoughts on this subject?
127 Comments
Otis Galloway
Some of you people truly frighten me.
Janet Hart
I am curious about the 4.1% who said it was from the humans. Only on the Flintstones did dinosaurs and man coexist.
Nicholas Miernicki
Sometimes I can't fall asleep, worried that the world won't have enough morons wandering around and keeping me amused, in the near future,. But, after reading these comments, I will sleep like a baby, knowing that they will be plentiful.
Howard Groopman
There was a Far Side cartoon showing dinosaurs smoking cigarettes. The caption was, "The real reason dinosaurs became extinct."
John Hogan
Hunted to extinction by early humans ? WTF ?
Chris Lee
Many records cite this...great! You ougth to be able to provide one or two of these! Just plug in the links here. Looking forward to it! Since photographs were in existence AND there are so many records, we should be able to see a few pics of stove-piped gents standing next to their strung-up brontosauri carcas trophies. Wow there must also be civil war era recipes for Stegasaurus Stew! The Confederacy would have been able to feed entire brigades off of one kill, although begrudgingly, since this tough and indigestible, though somewhat nutritious meat was reserved for slaves, according to the many records.
Stephen Farrelly
Mass Suicide ????
AND once again the 'self-proclaimed', 'the professors' FOR and AGAINST something have turned a quizz into a battleground.
PLEASE swap contact details and conduct your business in private !!!!
Ben Totuous
Kennie, the proof is up to you religious types. If there is an all powerful god, why has this god allowed the world to get like this? The burden of proof is not on me to show there is no god. The burden is on you believers to prove it. Anybody can write a book full of fairy tales telling people worship me or burn in a pit of fire forever. It is preposterous. Once again, I ask you bible thumpers... WHY is christianity any better than any other religion? You do preach somebody must believe in your God or burn in hell. That is by far the majority of the people in this world. WHAT makes you believers so special?
David Roy
According to Gary Larsen, it was smoking.
Lupe Hernandez
Ben Totuous, Why don't you keep your beliefs or non-beliefs to yourself. This site is for trivia questions not a forum for you to criticize others for what they believe. Besides you will find out true or false when you die.
TheresaLabron
I think it was the flood
Billie Sue Patrick
Thomas Mccord, How about you do a little research. The Bible is an anthology of folk tales written over centuries and selectively compiled to support the agendas of various monarchs, particularly Constantine. It is in no way a credible scientific or historical reference. Also, the Greek myths which are the basis for the titan stories originated around 5,000 years ago, quite awhile before even the old testament was written. In fact, much Christian mythology was adopted from older belief systems. As a whole, Christians are woefully ignorant about historical context in which their religion arose. Even so, this claim about the origin and demise of dinosaurs is one of the craziest things I've ever heard. Flat earth is the craziest, but this ranks right up near the top.
Billie Sue Patrick
Melanie Millard Lively Waidler, 'Sushi is disgusting' is an opinion because everyone's tastes are different. 'Climate change is a hoax' is not an opinion. It's a denial of reality and a dangerous one at that.
Chris Brown
Janet Hart, True. Some people will believe what is in cartoons.
Judy Franklin
😂😂😂Nicholas Miernicki,
blharris
blharris, yeeeeeyabbaDabbaDoo!
blharris
Janet Hart, lmbo
Cliff Occomore
Surely it's an extinction event?
Player Phil
The amount of trees and foliage on the planet then also constitutes for a lack of CO² in the atmosphere, a reversal of today, hence a very thin layer of greenhouse gas. The temperature dropped rapidly as a consequence.
Stuart
Janet Hart, birds are dinosaurs
Carole Ruggiero
Elma Griffiths, it's not a word. It's two words.
mmariano
Interesting. It is fortunate that there never was any event, external or internal (not even world war,and we have had two of them) that would have wiped out humankind.I guess part of the answer is human intelligence, which has anticipated everything.
Sandra Charlier
Don’t forget all of the dinosaur flatulence that caused the climate change!
Scott Smith
Melanie Millard Lively Waidler, actually, have you been to the ark encounter in Kentucky? According to texts and translations, there were “dinosaur” type creatures aboard the ark. Very fascinating experience.
lugene hughes
Irene Townsend, WOW!