Tag: KT
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Scientists shine light on 66-million-year-old meteorite wildfire mystery
Phys.org has a story about the K-Pg mass extinction event. It’s well established science that a meteorite struck the Yucatan peninsula about 66 million years ago. An event that brought about the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, ammonites, and many other animals that lived alongside them. There have been many theories and debates about…
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How the dinosaur extinction changed plant evolution
Phys.org has a story about plant evolution after the K-Pg mass extinction. Mass extinction always have irreversible effects on the evolution of life on Earth. The end Cretaceous extinction took out about 75% of species, including non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, ammonites, and other countless others. The Plant Kingdom isn’t always discussed, but it suffered heavy losses,…
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Tanis: Fossil of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike found, scientists claim
Artwork: The thinking is that a water surge buried all the creatures at Tanis The BBC has an article about a fossil site that preserves a snapshot of what may have been the last day of the non-avian dinosaurs. Nicknamed Tanis and located in North Dakota, the site has fossils of exquisite detail that are…
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How did cockroaches survive the dino-killing asteroid strike?
Live Science has an article that discusses the heartiness of roaches. Three quarters of all plant and animal species went extinct after the meteor struck Chicxulub at the end of the Cretaceous Period, how is that roaches made it through the extinction that followed? When the rock now known as the Chicxulub impactor plummeted from outer space…
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CBC Quirks and Quarks: Darkness doomed the dinosaurs
The CBC Radio show/Podcast Quirks and Quarks has a segment entitled “Darkness doomed the dinosaurs — the extinction asteroid turned out the lights on Earth”. They speak with Peter Roopnarine from the California Academy of Sciences about the after effects of the meteor strike that took out the non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous.…
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ScienceMag: Giant tsunami from dino-killing asteroid impact revealed in fossilized ‘megaripples’
Science Magazine has a piece about some “megaripples” found in central Louisiana. These fossilized trace fossils are thought to be from the tsunami caused by the meteor which brought about the KPg mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period about 66 million years ago. A new paper in the journal Earth and Planetary…
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NPR: Dinosaur-Killing Impact Came From Edge Of Solar System, New Theory Suggests
NPR has a story about the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. New research from Harvard University proposes that a comet and not a meteor impacted in the Yucatan peninsula. The research is detailed in a paper that was published in the journal Scientific Reports. For decades, the prevailing theory about the extinction of the…
