How did the dinosaurs die out, was it because a meteorite hit Earth?

Answer 1

That's the most likely cause. There is a thin layer of dust all around the earth from a meteorite that hit the earth 65 million years ago, the same time the dinosaurs died out.

The earth probably became dark and cold for a few years and that killed the large reptiles.

Answer 2

1. Most of the dinosaurs were gone a couple of hundred thousand to over a million years before the meteorite hit, only two species were left, both in North America. 2. The reason people were looking at the time the meteor hit was because there was a well supported die off of a very large percentage of species, like 60%, mostly small to microscopic, apparently from a variety of causes including increased volcanic activity in the Indian Ocean, etc. See if you can find this book Officer, Charles & Jake Page The great dinosaur extinction controversy 567.91 O32G 1996 which discusses a bunch of the flaws and the shifting claims of the meteorite people.

Answer 3

It is believed, and there is evidence of a meteorite hitting the earth, and causing an ice age, which killed off more then just dinosaurs. Another cause could have been a super volcano, which caused ash to blanket the earth, shutting out the sun, and causing an ice age as well. The meteorite would have caused a situation similar to a super volcano, or a series of volcanoes
Yellow Stone Park is being carefully monitored right now, because it is showing evidence that it could blow in the relatively near future. If and when it blows, it would cause a super volcano. At least, this is what the experts say, from what I could gather.

Answer 4

As I recall, which could be off and theories have probably been adjusted since I've last looked at the subject...

but yes, one of the leading if not the leading theory is the meteorite. More to the point though was the effect from the meteorite, rather than it just hitting the Earth. That being that it created a huge dust or particle cloud that blocked the sunlight and the further effects on that regarding atmosphere changes, temperature, vegetation... and out on a further dino limb, believe that was what caused the ice age... could be mixing time events and theories... guess my brain has shrunk... feeling a bit dino myself now. Man, if only I'd known that this information would have been in deman on Yahoo! Answers. doh!

Answer 5

The current theory is an asteroid impact off the Yucatan peninsula. However, there is still some disagreement as to the exact cause.

Researchers Rethink Dinosaur Die Off Scenario
David Braun
National Geographic News

February 26, 2002
Dinosaurs may not have been killed off by asteroid impact dust blocking out sunlight, a geologist says. Instead, the mass extinction associated with an asteroid impact 65 million years ago might have been caused by soot from global wildfires or sulfuric acid clouds that were a consequence of the collision.

Whether ash, soot, or acid clouds from the impact, what difference does it make how the dinosaurs and other life forms died in the mass extinction event?

"It probably doesn't seem important what mechanism was triggered; either way it still seems that the impact caused the extinction," says Kevin Pope from Geo Eco Arc Research in Aquasco, Maryland. "But the difference is important because it may have implications for the predictions of the consequences of future asteroid impacts, as well as explain why impact extinction events are so rare."

Answer 6

Most Scientists in the know think it was a comet or and asteroid. A meteorite would have been to small to do much damage
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/02/010223075852.htm
check this out.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

no its because they all went gay. a big tub of ky jelly was found next to a big pile of dinosaur bones. i think this is what is going to happen to the human race

Answer 9

As far as science can tell, yup. Look into geophysics and you'll see all there is to know about sediments and how they predicted that.

Answer 10

The flood of Noah's time.