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The dinosaur extinction occurred during a Deccan Traps volcanism-induced greenhouse climate change.

What Killed The Dinosaurs The Great Mystery Surely ever since the first fossils of obviously extinct animals were found, humankind has wondered: Why did they die A poignant question, for it has relevance to us - if extinct animals were wiped out by some catastrophe, couldn't that just as easily happen to us Could we be found as fossils someday, and would no one know why we died History: ...

Examines dinosaur extinction, mass and background extinctions, and the Earth's major, periodic extinctions.

ALVAREZ ASTEROID IMPACT THEORY, Dinosaur glossary explains basic paleontological terms.

Dinosaur Extinction Page There have been many mass extinctions throughout the history of the Earth. Probably the most famous is the extinction that finally saw the end of the dinosaurs reign on the Earth, 65 million years ago. It wasn't just the dinosaurs that died out in this extinction. Whatever caused the death of the dinosaurs also caused the death of around 70% of all of the species on the ...

Back to Lecture 23 BACK TO DINOSAURS 2001 HOME PAGE Lecture 24 - The Impact Theory of Mass Extinction In previous lectures we looked at the range of dinosaurs that existed at the close of the Cretaceous. We can now turn our attention to the events around the great mass extinction event that involved the elimination of the non-avian dinosaurs as well as the associated extinctions. I. GENERAL ...

The dinosaurs and other creatures that became extinct in the Late Cretaceous did not perish from an asteroid or comet impact, nor volcanic eruptions. Rather they became extinct due to ionizing radiation involving a new model of the Earth.