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Erickson, an evolutionary biologist at Florida State University, told The Huffington Post 'It must have been a hell of a thing to see.'Some experts have questioned this line of thinking and suggested that dinosaurs romped in water.Biologist Stuart Landry believes that big dinosaurs would just fall over on land and would have needed water to provide support. and she looks EXACTLY the same Shirtless Adam Levine shows off a rugged new shaved head image as he poses with wife Behati Prinsloo in bedtime snap Fancied a change She never goes out of Style! Taylor Swift to launch her first fashion line featuring sweatshirts, dresses and tops (but it's only available in China) One Direction singer Niall Horan's mystery blonde date unmasked as Selena Gomez's close friend Raquelle Stevens We can't keep up! Krysten Ritter flexes her super hero power as she prepares to film scenes with co-star Mike Colter on set of Jessica Jones in NYC Action girl 'It happened on the wedding night': Gary Lucy and pregnant wife Natasha reveal they are expecting a baby girl A bit too much information there..
A meteor streaked across the sky above the Ural Mountains in Russia this morning, injuring more than 400 people, many hurt by broken glass, and causing explosions. Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 10.45pm GMT22:45 The meteor that appeared over Russia this morning described a vector perpendicular to that of the asteroid flying by Earth later today
Video footage posted online which is believed to show the meteorite in Cuba Locals in Cuba said they saw this bright light in the sky followed by a loud explosion Disaster: This graphic shows the sequence of events which led to the meteor crashing in Russia Debris: Chunks of black matter, ranging between 5mm and 10mm in diameter, were found scattered around the ice hole caused by the meteorite Investigation: Officials stand around the hole caused by the meteorite strike, which also set off a dangerous sonic boomMore than 24,000 people, including volunteers, have mobilized in the region to cover windows, gather warm clothes and food and make other relief efforts, the regional governor's office said. Unexpected sight: A terrifying meteorite shower left a thousand people injured, buildings devastated and the mobile network wiped out when it hit Russia this morning Terrifying: Brightly burning rocks could be seen for hundreds of kilometres as they crashed at around 9.20am local time and one bystander described it 'like a scene from the Armageddon movie' Spectacular sky: The Urals region was struck by falling meteorite fragments which fell in the city of Chelyabinsk, 900 miles east of Moscow and close to the Kazakhstan border In a local church, clergyman Sexton Sergei sought to derive a larger lesson
Your odds of getting killed by an asteroid just went way up - Vox
Even so, the event caused more than 1,500 people to be hospitalized with injuries, mostly from broken glass caused by a shock wave generated when the asteroid entered the atmosphere. When the Chelyabinsk asteroid landed, a few lucky breaks prevented any deaths: it was already fractured before entering the atmosphere (which made it break into smaller pieces and burn up more easily on the way down) and the largest of the pieces that did land went straight into a frozen lake
Asteroids: Pictures, Videos, Breaking News
David Wilkie Director of Conservation Measures, Wildlife Conservation Society Life on the Billionth Rock From the Sun I've always regarded asteroids as somewhat like dinosaurs: mildly interesting and faintly dangerous. Mark Boslough Physicist; Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Why Aren't We Preparing for Supervolcanoes? It isn't statistically probable that we will encounter a supervolcanic eruption within the next century (or even millennia)
Armageddon (1998) - IMDb
Then, NASA discovered that there is an asteroid roughly the size of Texas heading towards the Earth, and when it does hit the Earth, the planet itself and all of its inhabitants will be obliterated, worse, the asteroid will hit the Earth in 18 days
The Bible describes a deluge for 40 days and 40 nights that created a flood so great that Noah was stuck in his ark for two weeks until the water subsided. Meanwhile, Bryant contends that chevrons found (pdf) 4 miles inland from the shore of Madagascar were formed by a wave that traveled 25 miles along the coast, moving almost parallel to the shoreline
They can know the trajectory and entry point a few minutes before entry...they can tell us the path it will take, but that can change depending on the shape of the rock as well as it's angle. PaulPerry 5pts I think if the goal was to truly terrorize people with this article, they wouldn't have used NYC as ground zero.Imagine the horror and terror they could generate if they predicted it was going to impact the Foxconn plant in China
Insects, mammals, birds, and flowering plants on land, and fishes, corals, and molluscs in the ocean went on to diversify tremendously soon after the end of the Cretaceous. In some places, the disturbed seafloor sediments contain fossils of fresh leaves and wood from land plants, along with tektites dated at 65 Ma (Figure 18.4)
National Museum of Natural History - Dinosaurs
A favored theory was that tectonically induced climate change interfered with food chains, disrupting them enough to cause widespread extinction among many different organisms. As dinosaur science began to alter this hypothesis, producing a new view of dinosaurs as successful and viable organisms, many of these extinction theories became less tenable
Berman What Happened in Brief According to abundant geological evidence, an asteroid roughly 10 km (6 miles) across hit Earth about 65 million years ago. Fundamentalists are defined as people who believe that the primary way of learning about nature should not be the scientific method, or compilation of evidence tested in different labs in different countries, but rather interpretation of ancient manuscripts, such as the Koran, the Old Testament of the Bible, the New Testament, or other ancient writings
Did Ancient Aliens Exterminate the Dinosaurs?
However, some animals grew bigger during the Ice Age - mammoth and grand sloths, etc - even though the atmospheric oxygen content was essentially the same as now. Avian dinosaurs such as Archaeopteryx may have survived somewhat longer, which makes sense, because most scientists believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs
'Bad luck' ensured that asteroid impact wiped out dinosaurs - BBC News
Dinosaurs had been around for 160 million years, they had plenty of dips and troughs in their diversity but they always recovered."It was the demise of the dinosaurs that enabled mammals including our own species to diversify and evolve. Could they have developed in the same way as mammals, becoming an advanced species similar to modern humans? I asked Dr Brusatte: "Could dinosaur you and dinosaur me be having this conversation, instead?" We can't re-run the tape of life and see whether an impact at a different time would have led to total extinction - but it did come at a particularly bad timeDr Richard Butler, Birmingham University "It's possible!" he said
But I like your plan.posted by coelecanth at 4:20 PM on June 25, 2005 longbaugh: You are, I think, considerably underestimating the power of a round from an AK-47. High velocity projectiles do indeed cause tissue damage from shockwave - I've spent several months as an acting surgeon's assistant (while I was a med student) on the L.A
The Great Mystery: Background
Falsifiability: Sad but true: many hypotheses about dinosaur extinction sound quite convincing and might even be correct, but, as you know, are not really science if they cannot be proven or disproved. The mystery has drawn extensive media coverage over the last 15 years, as you may know; some paleontologists have since lost interest in the issue, preferring to study how the dinosaurs and their contemporaries lived rather than why they died
What Killed Dinosaurs: New Ideas About the Wipeout
Illustration by Mark Garlick, Science Source New insights about the asteroid thought to have killed off the dinosaurs suggest it may have just been the final blow, and that the reptiles were already suffering from a finicky climate prompted by volcanic eruptions long before the meteorite struck. Evidence now suggests massive volcanic eruptions in India that predated the asteroid strike also played a part, triggering climate changes that were already killing off some dinosaur groups
Questioning the Impact Theory: Did Volcanoes Really Kill the Dinosaurs
He holds a Bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, a Master's degree in the history and philosophy of science from Indiana University, and a Doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Chicago. Keller and other Alvarez skeptics look to a major volcanic event that occurred towards the end of the Cretaceous as an alternate primary cause of the extinction
The iridium residue would have scattered all over the globe--and the massive amounts of dust raised by the impact would have blotted out the sun, and thus killed the vegetation eaten by herbivorous dinosaurs. In normal conditions, iridium is extremely rare, leading the Alvarezes to conclude that the earth was struck 65 million years ago by an iridium-rich meteorite or comet
The theory also concluded that not only was the dinosaur extinction abrupt but may have actually only taken hours as the heat from the astroid was so intense that the atmosphere (which was oxygen rich, as mentioned in the article) literally caught on fire in a ring of death that that circled the globe. It takes Way more faith to believe the world is here by accidents that are mathematically impossible anyway, than to believe in the Biblical God! Many scientists are also Christians as well and see no conflicts with their faith
Timing of an impact New findings using high-precision radiometric dating analysis of debris kicked up by the impact now suggest the K-T event and the Chicxulub collision happened no more than 33,000 years apart. For instance, dramatic climate swings in the preceding million years, including long cold snaps in the general hothouse environment of the Cretaceous, probably brought many creatures to the brink of extinction
Volcanic Eruptions, Not Meteor, May Have Killed The Dinosaurs -- ScienceDaily
It is calculated to have released ten times more climate altering gases into the atmosphere than the nearly concurrent Chicxulub meteor impact, according to volcanologist Vincent Courtillot from the Physique du Globe de Paris. 23 HEALTH With help from bystanders, cardiac arrest outcomes improving Planned Parenthood attacked in second video on fetal tissue use More evidence smoking raises risk of death from breast cancer Drugmaker Novartis blocked from selling Neupogen copycat until Sept 2 Heart device maker St
The Alvarezes published their findings in 1981, postulating that the thin layer of iridium was deposited following the impact of a large meteor, comet or asteroid with the earth. Scientists believe the bolide that formed it was roughly 6 miles in diameter, struck the earth at 40,000 miles per hour and released 2 million times more energy than the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated
Asteroid killed off the dinosaurs, says international scientific panel -- ScienceDaily
The extinction wiped out more than half of all species on the planet, including the dinosaurs, bird-like pterosaurs and large marine reptiles, clearing the way for mammals to become the dominant species on Earth. Immediately after the iridium layer, there is a dramatic decline in fossil abundance and species, indicating that the KT extinction followed very soon after the asteroid hit
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