Geologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid

Re:Geologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing ... by lisper on Saturday May 07, 2016 @04:39PM (#11651266)

> "I think it was a bad few months, really," Morgan says.

Actually, there's quite a bit of evidence that the dinos were wiped out in a matter of days, if not hours. The ejecta from the impact was launched out into space on sub-orbital trajectories. When it fell back, it heated the atmosphere and turned the whole planet into a giant convection oven.

http://www3.nd.edu/~cneal/CRN_Papers/Schulte10_Sci_Chicxulub...

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Re:Geologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing ... by mrfusion on Saturday May 07, 2016 @05:55PM (#11651513)

How did birds and mammals survive?

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Re:Geologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing ... by trhway on Saturday May 07, 2016 @07:18PM (#11651822)

It were small mole kind of mammals in their ground holes. Something like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole-rat - this one has very low metabolic rate for example.

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Re:Geologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing ... by aminok on Sunday May 08, 2016 @07:54AM (#11653643)

Here's my amateur scientific paper on the proximal cause of the dinosaur extinction, and why birds and mammals survived:

http://amincd.tumblr.com/post/5690584281/oxygen-deprivation-...

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Re:Geologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing ... by lisper on Saturday May 07, 2016 @06:05PM (#11651551)

Under ground and in caves.

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Re:Geologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing ... by elcct on Saturday May 07, 2016 @07:13PM (#11651803)

Birds are dinosaurs

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Re:Geologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing ... by tamana on Sunday May 08, 2016 @01:39AM (#11652784)

Non-extinct.

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Re:Geologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing ... by yeukhon on Sunday May 08, 2016 @03:02AM (#11653009)

Presumably they lived far far away.

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