Did an asteroid kill the dinosaurs?

Answer 1

It was an meteorite and climate change that killed the dinosaurs. Meteorites are similar to asteroids and are commonly called shooting stars. If an asteroid approaching towards the Earth catches fire due to the friction of the Earth's atmosphere, it is seen as a shooting star. The meteorite that killed the dinosaurs measured 6miles(10 km)

in length. It fell in the village of in Mexico. Due to the impact and the large mass of the meteorite, the sky was laden heavily with dust, particles which suffocated the dinosaurs.

Answer2: Listing some speculations as to what happened to them, Princeton scientist G. L. Jepson stated:

"Authors with varying competence have suggested that dinosaurs disappeared because the climate deteriorated . . . or that the diet did. . . . Other writers have put the blame on disease, parasites, . . . changes in the pressure or composition of the atmosphere, poison gases, volcanic dust, excessive oxygen from plants, meteorites, comets, gene pool drainage by little mammalian egg-eaters, . . . cosmic radiation, shift of Earth's rotational poles, floods, continental drift, . . . drainage of swamp and lake environments, sunspots."-The Riddle of the Dinosaur.

It is apparent from such speculation that scientists are not able, with any certainty, to answer the question: What happened to the dinosaurs?

University of Arizona scientist David Jablonski concludes that 'for many plants and animals, extinction was abrupt and somehow special.Mass extinctions are not merely the cumulative effects of gradual dyings. Something unusual happened.' Their arrival was also abrupt. Scientific American observes: "The sudden appearance of both suborders of the pterosaurs without any obvious antecedents is fairly typical of the fossil record." That is also the case with dinosaurs. Their relatively sudden appearance and disappearance contradicts the commonly accepted view of slow evolution.

Answer 2

The generally accepted theory is that an asteroid did kill the dinosaurs. However, there is evidence that it was not one, but two asteroids that killed the dinosaurs. The Chixculub impact would have happened first, but then another, possibly larger impact just around 200,000 years later would have been the final straw for the already diminished non avian dinosaur population. In any case, birds, a group of dinosaurs, did survive the impact and continue to exist today.

Answer 3

no but the astorid did make the ice age

and,

the hole story of how the dinosaurs died is...

The theories say that a meteor, over a mile wide, hit Mexico 65.5 million years ago causing a mass extinction of the Dinosaurs both by the fire and heat from the meteor's impact and also by cooling the Earth's atmosphere with all of the dust the meteor threw into the air, which caused the reflection of the sun's rays away from the Earth.

Answer 4

The ice age had no effect on the dinosaurs as they were all extinct by then.

The present ice age started about 2.6 million years ago, but the last dinosaurs, (except for birds), all became extinct about 65 million years ago.

Answer 5

Dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago, the present ice age only started about 2.6 million years ago. So dinosaurs died out 62.4 million years before the present ice age.

Answer 6

We cannot prove how the dinosaurs died, but there are theories.

See the related question below.

Answer 7

no

Answer 8

probably

ask him yourself

look up Google maps ice age baby birth place and you will find him there

Answer 9

the ice age baby did it