FOSSIL OF 67-MILLION-YEAR-OLD RAPTOR FOUND IN NEW MEXICO

Source: http://www.scoopyweb.com/2020/04/fossil-of-67-million-year-old-raptor.html
Published: Apr 20, 2020
Author: staff
Post Date: 2020-04-20 18:23:13 by Horse
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The origin of life is one of the great scientific mysteries yet to be solved, and when it comes to dinosaurs, so is the origin of death. Scientists have debated for ages how the terrible thunder lizards met their terrible end. Perhaps the greatest explanation was mass constipation, which — as detailed in the book After the Dinosaurs — experts posited to have resulted from herbivorous dinosaurs munching on hard-to-digest flowering plants that emerged 65 million years ago. But as time passed and better evidence accumulated, that theory went the way of the dinosaurs.

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#1: randge    To: Horse (#0)

That is close in time to the Chicxulub crater impact in the Yucatán that occurred when a large asteroid or comet struck the Earth and covered the surface with a thin layer of iridium that can be found on all continents. The impact coincided with the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary around 66 million years ago and a big species die off.

randge posted on 2020-04-20 18:42:18   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Cynicom    To: randge (#1)

Thanx...I must have slept thru a semester or two.

Cynicom posted on 2020-04-20 19:00:14   Reply   Private Reply

#3: StraitGate    To: Horse (#0)

FOSSIL OF 67-MILLION-YEAR-OLD RAPTOR FOUND IN NEW MEXICO

Might be Ruth Bader Ginsburg's mother?

StraitGate posted on 2020-04-20 19:00:58   Reply   Private Reply

#4: BTP Holdings    To: randge (#1)

when a large asteroid or comet struck the Earth and covered the surface with a thin layer of iridium that can be found on all continents

That impact threw up so much debris high into the atmosphere that upon re-entry it par boiled the dinosaurs just like they were in the broiler in your oven. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2020-04-20 19:03:48   Reply   Private Reply

#5: Cynicom    To: StraitGate (#3)

Might be Ruth Bader Ginsburg's mother?

Go to the head of the class young man.

Cynicom posted on 2020-04-20 19:07:05   Reply   Private Reply

#6: randge    To: Cynicom (#2)

You didn't hear that big rumble?

randge posted on 2020-04-20 19:32:03   Reply   Private Reply