RE: Asteroid killed off the Dinosaurs, confirmed.
February 9, 2013 at 5:46 am
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2013 at 5:47 am by Napoléon.)
(February 8, 2013 at 11:13 pm)Chuck Wrote: Btw, as usual, the report is inaccurate. The results of the research shows the asteroid impact fell within 10000 years of the most commonly accepted stratigraphic marker for the end of Cretaceous. It DOES NOT show the asteroid killed off the dinosaurs. As you can see everytime look upon a live bird, dinosaurs are not killed and are still with us. Birds are dinosaurs.
Non-avian branches of dinosaurs did go extinct around the end of Cretaceous. But it is not clear if the asteroid really finally killed them off either. There are some fossil evident that suggest some families of non-avian dinosaurs were alive 250,000 years above the stratigraphic marker for end of Cretaceous.
The article did explain this.
It openly says that the asteroid was not solely responsible for the extinction of all dinosaurs, but it was with reasonable certainty the catalyst for their eventual extinction.
