scientist say the die because of a flood and a drought
this theory couldn't be true because then the dinosaurs would have benn up-right, or standing up, not on their side.
because they realised they were wrong.
Briefly, the theory is that the mass extinction which included the loss of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period was caused by the impact of a large asteroid.
I does not. The asteroid would of had to knock out the entire earth for that to happen. If you think of the facts it is just not possible.
Mammal competition is a theory about the extinction of the dinosaurs. It says that mammals used up all of the dinosaur's resources, and then the dinosaurs died because they didn't have the food, space, and resources they needed to survive.
Historically, an asteroid that struck the Earth 65 million years ago is one theory for the extinction of the dinosaurs, but that hit in Yucatan (Mexico).
The most logical theory for the extinction of the dinosaurs is that a large asteroid impacted the earth. Look into it, this topic has many different theories and lots of different interesting information. The answer to this question can be opinionated and debated.
For ten million years prior to the K-T Extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, massive volcanic traps were erupting in India. They released massive amounts of greenhouse gases, which altered the climate. The altered climate had decreased dinosaur biodiversity to one tenth of what it had been by 65.5 million years ago. Some paleontologists believe that this is what wiped out the dinosaurs.
Prior to the Asteroid Impact Theory of dinosaur extinction, one of the most popular theories for dinosaur extinction was the Flowering Plant Toxin Theory of dinosaur extinction. Flowering plants did not appear until just over 65 million years ago and many of them contain toxic plant alkaloids. The theory went that browsing herbivorous dinosaurs poisoned themselves eating flowering plants and built up high enough levels of the toxic alkaloids in their tissue that when carnivorous dinosaurs ate the bodies they were poisoned too. Extinction by this process was predicted to be slow, taking 3 or 4 million years. Dinosaurs never evolved the ability to taste the bitter flavor of these alkaloids, like mammals did who thus survived by avoiding the bitter plants. The current Asteroid Impact Theory is much prompter to eliminate the large dinosaurs, in some versions of the theory they went entirely extinct in only a couple years because they could not survive the icy cold dark winters lasting 2/3s to 3/4s of the year, following the impact for about a decade.
Meteorite impact hypothesis is that theory about a meteorite hitting the earth some thousands of years ago and bringing the dinosaurs to extinction, better known as Alvarez
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The main reason is that many different organisms went extinct along with the dinosaurs, both on land and in the sea. In all, about 65% of all species on Earth went extinct. Furthermore, many groups of organism disappear from the fossil record very suddenly. This evidence suggests that a cataclysmic event devastated numerous ecosystems around the world.