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An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

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Re: An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

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One thing that isn't talked about as much as it should be, there's a possibility that 65 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs, the earth's atmosphere was very thick.

All these Dinosaurs with their extremely long necks and bodies couldn't support their own weight if wandering around the earth today.

The mass extinction event may have occurred simply because the atmosphere changed and these giant beasts used to this exotic thick atmosphere could no longer support their own weight.

Re: An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

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One thing that isn't talked about as much as it should be, there's a possibility that 65 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs, the earth's atmosphere was very thick. All these Dinosaurs with their extremely long necks and bodies couldn't support their own weight if wandering around the earth today. The mass extinction event may have occurred simply because the atmosphere changed and these giant beasts u…

Are you suggesting that this is the cause of the extinction event, rather than an extraterrestrial impact? Or something more like the impact may have caused a significant change in atmospheric composition?

This would not explain the myriad other, much smaller species that also perished, not to mention all of the marine animals.

Re: An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

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One thing that isn't talked about as much as it should be, there's a possibility that 65 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs, the earth's atmosphere was very thick. All these Dinosaurs with their extremely long necks and bodies couldn't support their own weight if wandering around the earth today. The mass extinction event may have occurred simply because the atmosphere changed and these giant beasts u…

I would love to see a scientific paper on the bouyant dinosaur theory.

Re: An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

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post #13

One thing that isn't talked about as much as it should be, there's a possibility that 65 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs, the earth's atmosphere was very thick. All these Dinosaurs with their extremely long necks and bodies couldn't support their own weight if wandering around the earth today. The mass extinction event may have occurred simply because the atmosphere changed and these giant beasts u…

I would love to see a scientific paper on the bouyant dinosaur theory.

lol, why the downvoting? I didn't say it was a fact, I said it was a possibility.

https://dl.icdst.org/pdfs/files2/abe347ca228406be4720d5554a6...

Re: An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

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One thing that isn't talked about as much as it should be, there's a possibility that 65 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs, the earth's atmosphere was very thick. All these Dinosaurs with their extremely long necks and bodies couldn't support their own weight if wandering around the earth today. The mass extinction event may have occurred simply because the atmosphere changed and these giant beasts u…

Can't believe the downvoting. There's several major issues with the current dinosaur theory RN.

Four areas of scientific incongruities regarding these animals’ large size are 1) insufficient muscle strength, 2) insufficient bone strength, 3) unacceptably high blood pressure within the tallest dinosaurs, and 4) the paradox of pterosaurs having grossly insufficient power to fly in atmospheric conditions similar to the present

Today there are no reptiles capable of generating the power needed to fly, and yet during the Mesozoic era reptiles grew to be the largest flying animals that ever existed. The largest of these pterosaurs was the Quetzalcoatlus. It had a chest size as large as a horse and stood as tall as a giraffe ... [Y]et some paleontologists continue to insist that there is no scientific paradox regarding how the pterosaurs could have flown ... [P]terosaurs could not have flown in today’s atmospheric environment. The application of aerodynamic equations show pterosaurs falling far short of meeting the requirements for obtaining flight in today’s atmosphere, and the experimental efforts using RC models provide physical evidence confirming these conclusions. It should be alarming to all scientists and science educators that some paleontologists continue to claim that they understand how pterosaurs flew when the evidence is so overwhelming in refuting their claim ...

Re: An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

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post #13

One thing that isn't talked about as much as it should be, there's a possibility that 65 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs, the earth's atmosphere was very thick. All these Dinosaurs with their extremely long necks and bodies couldn't support their own weight if wandering around the earth today. The mass extinction event may have occurred simply because the atmosphere changed and these giant beasts u…

I would love to see a scientific paper on the bouyant dinosaur theory.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26553081_Atmospheri...

Re: An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

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One thing that isn't talked about as much as it should be, there's a possibility that 65 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs, the earth's atmosphere was very thick. All these Dinosaurs with their extremely long necks and bodies couldn't support their own weight if wandering around the earth today. The mass extinction event may have occurred simply because the atmosphere changed and these giant beasts u…

I've heard that oxygen levels are lower now than they have been in the past (this seems to change a lot on geological timescales), and that high oxygen levels may help allow megafauna's existence. I wouldn't think it's so much the buoyancy as it is about all the other biological machinery that can operate more efficiently at higher oxygen levels. Oxygen levels are largely driven by algae and plant levels, which of course could have been dramatically affected by the impact.

It's also possible you'd be better received espousing an alternative to conventional science if your handle didn't sound like a reference to Flat Earth Theory.

Re: An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, 65 million years ago was really not that far from the present, geologically speaking. https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66

Wow India is really headed north in a hurry.

Yes it is! Hence the mountains.

Re: An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring, which might explain why mammals survived

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Another wildly speculative claim that they will contradict in a few months. Headlines like this are effectively worthless clickbait.

It is speculative but it is also a paper in Nature. It's hardly some random blog.
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