how did the dinosaurs died?

Question

hmm just thought that i would like to ask a few questions =]
when was the last time global warming happened?
dinosaurs live in cold temperatures or?
could there be like a drastic rise in temperature and they couldnt take it.. wiped out?
just a burning question out of the blue =P
if they really was drowned or gathered to be striked by a meteorite then take my question as a creative twist RIP dinos.
but is there a possibility?

Answer 1

Many evolutionists say the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. How? Well, there are over 50 different theories. Let me just list a few:
-Mammals eating dinosaur eggs.
-New narcotic plants evolving.
-Global cooling/global warming.
-Loss of plants causing herbivores to starve which in turn caused the carnivores to starve.
-A supernova exploded nearby, spraying the earth with radiation.
-A passing comet poisoned the earth with chemicals.
-One of the current favorites is the “deep impact” theory proposed by the geologist Walter Alvarez in about 1980. This theory states that a meteor strike caused dramatic climate changes much like a “nuclear winter” which supposedly caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other animals. His evidence was his discovery of an alleged world-wide layer of clay with a high iridium content, which is found in meteorites. Well, there are plenty of papers that talk about the problems with this theory. One, is that the earth’s core also has iridium in it that can be brought up by volcanos. Many Creationists believe Noah's Flood would have caused the greatest volcanoes that there have ever been, and some believe God pelted the earth with meteors during the flood as well.

Other evolutionists though, don’t think dinosaurs are extinct anyway. The entrance to the bird exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo in Ohio has or had a sign that said: “Dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago—or did they? No, birds are essentially modern short-tailed feathered dinosaurs.” But of course, bird evolution is one of the most controversial areas in evolutionary paleontology and evolutionists often disagree and criticize each other. We hear a lot of reports of feathered dinosaurs being found, but what you rarely hear, is that the main candidates are believed by many experts to simply be frayed collagen fibers, or hair like structures that could have supported a frill or crest like those on iguanas, or are on animals that are not dinosaurs, but flightless birds. The drawings are certainly not what we find; they are just the artists’ imagination. Dr. Alan Feduccia, a world authority on birds and an evolutionist, along with his coworkers have presented a substantial body of evidence to support their view that there are, in fact, no known dinosaurs with feathers (they believe birds evolved from different reptiles, but not dinosaurs).

Answer 2

I understand your question quite clearly. I believe part of the reason is the common statement people say against the Noah story. "How did he fit ALL the animals in the ark" The fact that many animals today are gone could mean exactly that Noah was NOT able to take all the species in the ark. That would include the bird dinosaurs, afaik, birds are not capable of flying 24/7 for a whole 1 month. It's not like they could all find Noah's ark and stand on top of it either, and I don't think Noah would give them food if it is rationed enough to just feed the animals already in the ark, they may have also been used as food for other animals, the same for other aquatic animals, they may have fished for food and thus the only food they had to have instock are vegetable hay etc. The aquatic concept is interesting that you said that cause I was thinking about that for a while now. Did you know that there are places underwater that we haven't explored yet? Many sea creatures live there that we haven't even discovered yet. Also only recently have the sea scientists found many things thought to be extinct, theres also the giant squid 150 ft long that they haven't even thought could exist. OK other reasons. -Food Shortage. Climate change- temperature etc. Salt vs Seawater etc. I believe that those creatures may have actually survived but died out later on. Such large creatures would require large amounts of food. There will be great competition and only a few would survive. One factor you didn't include is the concept that back then, there were probably seas but not oceans. Think about how much would change in your theory if you put that into account. The concept of the creationist's view on this topic is that back then there were more land on the surface and most of the water we have on the oceans back then were under the soil, until the time came when the Bible said "the fountain of the deep broke open" I believe it speaks of the ocean ridges (you can see giant cracks on the earth underwater. anyway, the food scarcity in this new huge ocean would have been problem for lage animals and they would have to compete with the whales. I believe the whales got lucky.

Answer 3

Global warming did not kill the dinosaurs. A cooling event from the colossal meteor impact 65 million years ago certainly took its toll. Dinosaurs lived at a time when the Earth's climate was a little more homogeneous. This is not to say that it didn't get hot or cold, but that the position of the continents (which, of course, changed continually during the 125 million years or so that the dinosaurs lived) affected ocean currents in such a way that the temperatures did not reach today's extremes. Dinosaurs, like mammals today, spread across all of the landmasses and adapted to whatever climate they encountered. The impact created a cooling event which cut the food supply, lowered the temperatures, and created deserts (yes, global cooling creates deserts, not global warming).

The dinosaurs (large and small) could not survive, save one group: the birds. Birds are all that remains of the dinosaurs. After the impact, they and mammals fought tooth and claw (literally) for whatever niche they could get. Mammals, for the most part, won.

While the impact had a large effect, there are other factors which may have played a part in the doom of the dinosaurs, but it is unlikely that we'll fully understand what happened.

Answer 4

I have read where the dinos were found buried in a standing position with food in their mouths near ample vegetation and water. To my mind dinos were victims of a satanic being who just got his butt kicked for trying to put God out to pasture in what was or would have been a major take over bid for the universe. The results of a being with powers of a god was a temper tantrum that demolished everything with such a fury that would make the "A" bombs used on Japan seen like a summer breeze. The speed at which this took place caught nature off guard.

Answer 5

The current theory is that a huge meteor struck the earth and cause fires and disasters followed by a blanket of dust in the atmosphere that blocked the sun allowing most plant life to die. The original crash and the lack of food that followed probably killed them.

Answer 6

last global warming too place around 50-100,000 yrs back.
some kind of them lived in col places but not at poles,till now we haven't found lived at poles.
yes there will be , if we don't act fast to make, our living style pollution control, with out leaving co2 in to space.
there is a possibility

Answer 7

Dinosaurs have nothing to eat,also because of weather had changed to warmth weather,the forest of trees cause fire ,so that they died during the years of Before Chirst.

Answer 8

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?

A large asteroid enters the atmosphere at extremely high speed, glowing red hot as the friction of the air turns it into a fiery cannon ball. Its impact with the ground results in a massive explosion, vaporizing the space object and launching perhaps over a trillion tons of gas, ash and rock dust into the atmosphere.

If the asteroid is big enough— Pope says about three kilometers (two miles) in diameter— the energy released by the impact would hurl enough debris into space to envelop the Earth in a rain of fire.

The ejected debris would re-enter the atmosphere like billions of meteorites, raining burning balls of fire back to Earth in a giant display of planetary fireworks. The brilliant glow from these billions of fireballs would ignite forest fires across the globe, generating vast, thick clouds of smoke and soot.

The asteroid that is associated with the mass extinction of the dinosaurs is believed to have been the one that created the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan, Mexico. It was certainly bigger than three kilometers across (more like ten to 15 kilometers or six to ten miles) and it would have caused global fires, Pope says.

"Another important factor is that the Yucatan, where the giant asteroid hit, was especially rich in sulfur-bearing rocks (calcium sulfate). The impact vaporized the sulfate rock and deposited billions of tons of sulfur dioxide gas in the atmosphere.

"Studies of volcanic eruptions have shown that this gas would convert to sulfuric acid clouds in the atmosphere, and that such clouds could remain in the atmosphere for years. These clouds may have initially been thick enough to shut down photosynthesis for a year, and perhaps they blocked the sun long enough (several years) to cause major global cooling. This mechanism helps explain why the impact was especially devastating," Pope says.

The original theory, proposed by Luis Alvarez and his colleagues in 1980, is that asteroid dust from the Yucatan impact formed dense clouds that surrounded the Earth, obscuring the sun. The prolonged period of darkness that shrouded the planet caused the plants to die, breaking the food chain and starving the animals. Many of them, including the dinosaurs, died out.

But now Pope is challenging this theory. Arguing in the February issue of Geology that the assumptions behind the asteroid dust theory are wrong, he says that the damage estimates from future asteroid impacts are also amiss.
Model Used to Show Dust Dispersal

Pope used a model to show how the large dust particles found in the K-T layer [the geological term for the layer of Earth that dates to the time of the asteroid impact associated with the mass extinction] could disperse. From the results of his test he extrapolated how the finer dust particles, the ones that were supposed to have surrounded the Earth and altered its climate, would have dispersed.

Email to a Friend

He believes that the Yucatan impact could not have produced enough dust particles of a size that it would take to shut down photosynthesis for any significant length of time and therefore the original extinction theory is not valid.

Instead, Pope believes it may have been sulfur gases produced from impacted rocks and soot from global fires that shut down photosynthesis and caused global cooling.

The original studies of the clay layer found at the K-T boundary assumed much or all of this layer was derived from fine impact dust, he says. "More recent studies of this layer have shown this not to be the case. Furthermore, earlier estimates were based on extrapolations of data from surface atomic bomb blasts, which had about 100 million times less energy than the Chicxulub impact. Extrapolation over eight orders of magnitude is risky business. "

Pope, who was involved with the identification of the Chicxulub crater as the dinosaur killer in 1989-1990 when he worked at the NASA Ames Research Center, says that the current widely held theory suggests that the ash particles caused by the impact were so fine that they would have remained suspended in the air for a long time, making the Earth dark for an extended period.

But his model indicated that not enough ash could have been generated to do that. "In any event, the ash would not have dispersed in that way," Pope says. "Most of the ash would have fallen rather quickly near the impact area, causing substantial regional damage but having less effect with increased distance from the site," he says.

"The implication is that asteroids of a smaller size— with a diameter of under three kilometers— would not necessarily have the dire consequences for the planet that is currently believed," Pope says. "They would cause heavy regional damage, but the ash fall-out would not be as great as previously believed."

Pope says some scientists have challenged his theory. "They say there may be some other extinction mechanisms that smaller impacts trigger besides dust. That may be true, but no one has done the detailed studies to back up such arguments."

Answer 9

They died of a meteor,witch block the sunlight,so all the plants and dinosaurs died,DUH!

Answer 10

large meteor struck the earth