It was not a good time to be a dinosaur.
'As Richards points out, there’s always going to be an element of mystery when studying Earth’s distant past. Not only did the KT extinction happen a long time ago, the events that triggered it hardly fit into our paradigm of natural disasters. “We’ve never experienced a magnitude 11 earthquake, or single lava flows that travel 600 kilometers—the distance from Salt Lake City to San Francisco,” he said. “All of these events are things that are so far out of our normal experience that we have to be very open minded as to what might have happened.”'
Yikes.
What Killed the Dinosaurs Was More Devastating Than an Asteroid
For nearly 40 years, paleontologists have argued over what really killed the dinosaurs. Was it an massive asteroid impact, or a spate of volcanic eruptions? Or what if a powerful impact ignited volcanoes, walloping Earth’s biosphere with a deadly 1-2 punch?
Now I feel like watching Looney Tunes 😉
Sharknado! Aliens!
Shh! Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting dinosauws. Heh heh heh heh heh.