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65 million years ago, most of the dinosaurs were killed by a large asteroid, which landed in the Yucatan Peninsula in east Mexico where a very, very wide and deep crater is there today.
The comet killed the dinosaurs by shooting up a cloud of ash which blocked out the sun over most of the Earth and started an ice age which killed them because they couldn't survive the freezing temperatures.
However, some animals survived by exploding into more hairy or insulated-skinned animals such as the mammoth (now extinct) well that was pointless wasn't it!
The crocodiles and alligators are examples of dinosaurs which have survived the ice age the question was when did the dinosaurs get wiped out and I am sorry that I kept going on and on I realize I made a mistake and I am sorry.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agofrom the world flood
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Unless you happen to believe in the interpretation of Biblical stories, science has proposed several potential scenarios which may ave acted alone or in concert:
- a cometary impact which severely changed the worlds climate and made the dinosaurs environment uninhabitable
- the introduction of diseases from other continents
- Te spread of grass which supplanted the normal foods of the dinosaurs
- world wide climate change related to drifting continents, ocean currents or volcanic action
- the evolution of mammals which were better at using the same resources
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∙ 13y ago65.5 million years ago, an asteroid with a diameter of 6 miles crashed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, creating the Chixculub crater. It threw so much dust into the atmosphere, that sunlight was blocked for months. Plants died without sunlight, and the herbivorous dinosaurs died without plants to eat. The carnivores soon died out, too, because their prey was gone.
There is evidence, too, that the Chixculub impact preceded the dinosaur extinction by hundreds of thousands of years, until another, possibly larger asteroid struck and eliminated the non avian dinosaurs once and for all. Even without the asteroids, dinosaurs were already dealing with the negative affects of climate change.
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∙ 12y agoScientists says that an enormous meteor crashed down on Earth 65 million years ago and destroyed the dinosaurs.
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How did dinosaurs were wiped out?
A meteor shower.
Was it an asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs or glaciers?
It was something you did.
How did life start after asteroid hit earth and wiped out dinosaurs?
Life did not start after the dinosaurs were wiped out. Life on Earth started billions of years before that. The asteroid wiped out a large portion of life on earth, but not all of it. Some things survived.
Did the dinosaurs get wiped out by an asteroid?
No somebody had a massive dump and it killed them all
Does an asteroid contribute to extinction?
I believe it does. Scientists think that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.
Did a supernova kill the dinosaurs?
Probably not. Current evidence suggests that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid impact, possibly in combination with an outburst of volcanic activity.
One theory about what wiped out the dinosaurs says that one of these may have hit Earth?
A meteor.
Why arre their no more dinosaurs?
there isn't any because a big meteor came and wiped them out
Why are there no dinosaurs left?
Technically there are dinosaurs still around. Most paleontologists now classify birds as dinosaurs. Other than that, the dinosaurs are believed to have been wiped out by an asteroid or comet impact 65.5 million years ago.
How dinosaurs vanished?
some say an asteroid hit the earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. others say the climate got colder and the dinos couldn't adapt.
Which meteor fell and the dinosaurs died?
We are not particularly sure but we think that a meteor wiped out the dinosaur race.
Did dinosaurs ever exit?
apparently yes. but they were wiped out by a massive meteorite millions of years ago,
