Posted on 07/19/2016 3:00:57 PM PDT by bananaman22
What killed the dinosaurs? It’s a question as old as – well the dinosaurs themselves, and one that everyone from school children to scientists have been asking for decades. Movies like Jurassic Park and the Land Before Time only heighten that sense of wonder and raise the stakes behind that question. Now according to a new scientific study, it seems that black gold may have been the source of the dinos’ demise.
Japanese researchers at Tohuku University and the Meteorological Research Institute authored a recent study in the research journal Scientific Reports suggesting that a meteor impact 66 million years ago on an oil rich region of Yucatan Peninsula led to the death of the dinosaurs. When the asteroid hit the vast oil deposits of Mexico, it sent thick black smoke into the atmosphere, changing the climate around the world. That soot blocked out the sun leading to a significant cooling of the planet. Equally importantly, it also led to a substantial drought around the world.
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The asteroid impact caused a massive fracking-like effect, which raised the greenhouse gases (as well as subterranian dust) engulf the globe.
Wow, so oil is the devil.
If the dinosaurs really were basically giant birds as the scientists are claiming, then I would expect what killed them were giant cats.
I thought dinosaurs were oil?!
But, but, but, if you ask any libtard, dinosaurs WERE the oil (or where it came from).
Yep that was big oil back then
Gary Larson answered this question years ago. It was the cigarettes.
GMTA
I think when it’s said in that context the correct spelling is “Debbil!”.
This theory needs a whole lot of work.
You may be right. Momma always had trouble with that word. But momma said it.
Too funny.
FR needs rules regarding just how funny a thread can be allowed to become.
Yeah. It’s not quite as polished as the theory that nuclear energy created Godzilla.
That theory makes more sense than anything else I have ever read...
Ah ha! Another polemic in search of its science.
Prehistoric SUVs.
Another theory of the month.
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