How do you believe the dinosaurs died???

Question

In school We're going to do a debate on how the dinosaurs died...

Answer 1

the answer is obvious. Chuck Norris roundhouse kick to the face

Answer 2

Dinosaurs, and thousands of other plants and animals, died out about 65 million years ago, probably because of a six mile wide asteroid striking the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. The impact created a crater 165 miles wide and probably started forest fires all over the planet. The dust from the impact and smoke from the fires reduced the amount of sunlight getting to the earth. This caused a severe cooling period on the earth. Plant life died and it was years before it began to recover. During that time, plant eating animals had nothing to eat so they died. This, then, killed off the meat eaters. Only the small and the lucky plants and animals, both on land and in the sea, were able to survive.

Answer 3

Evolutionists say the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. How? Well, I’ve read that 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. And why did the alleged impact kill off the dinosaurs while many other forms of life that you would expect to die remained healthy?

Plenty of evolutionists though, don’t think dinosaurs are extinct anyway. The entrance to the bird exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo in Ohio had a sign that said: “Dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago—or did they? No, birds are essentially modern short-tailed feathered dinosaurs.”

If you look at the popular evolutionists’ “dinosaur family tree” you will see that they say birds evolved from an ancestor of the theropod dinosaurs. But this dinosaur family tree does not present observed scientific fact. Rather, it presents assumptions, hypotheses and beliefs as if they are observed fact. One thing you have to realize is that bird evolution is one of the most controversial areas in evolutionary paleontology and evolutionists often disagree and criticize each other.

Let’s think for a minute—countries all over the world have stories of dragon slayers. Perhaps they went extinct from man killing them for food, sport, or because they were a nuisance. I think we just didn’t start our endangered species programs early enough.

Another thing, is that there have been (even recently) reports of strange animals in the amazon and the congo that sound a lot like dinosaurs. And there are reports of giant flying reptiles in Indonesia, and so forth. There are thousands of square miles of almost impenetrable swamps and thick jungle in the world. And natives in some of these places describe beasts that fit with what just might be dinosaurs. And what about all the sightings of lake monsters? This is a field called cryptozoology—the search for hidden animals. There just might be a few dinosaurs left, teetering on the edge of extinction. We are constantly discovering new species of animals and plants in remote areas. A tree can’t run away and hide and yet the Wollemi pine tree avoided detection until just recently (said to have become extinct millions of years ago).

Answer 4

They all died in Noah's flood....although some of the the ones he brought on the Ark lived and repopulated for many years after that and some versions have been living up till today... they were usually called "dragons" and other terms long ago up until 1842 when the word "dinosaur" was first used to describe some of them.
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/behemoth.html

Answer 5

Ive always been kind of curious about that same question. Im not really sure what is closest to the truth but i think the lack of of food and vegetation along with disease killed them off. People forget that this didnt just happen overnight they were here millions of years before humans, they could have died over a million year span, just like we probably will. You never know!

also the meteor theory is a good one!

Answer 6

There were many many ancient times where mass extinctions occured and they seem to follow a regular pattern. Fortunately, someone noticed that every certain number of years, space particles (most likely comets) hit the earth a lot more than other times. One of those times resulted in the Yucatan peninsula being formed as a crash site. Google the "nemesis theory" and see how you like it. Actually, it's pretty cool in a scientific way. And it involves a huge cloud of comets called the Oort Cloud. I know I know. Sounds like sci-fi. Well... where do you think the sci-fi writers get their ideas from??!!?

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Answer 7

I think they were migratory animals. The earths' magnetic poles disappeared (as they sometimes do). The dinosaurs could not find their way anymore and died off.

Get an "A".

Answer 8

Catastrophic meteor or meteors hitting the earth, spewing dust into the atmosphere and blocking out the sun and cooling down the earth tremendously.

Answer 9

Honestly? Global Warming caused methane gasses to be released into the atmosphere which resulted in what we call the greenhouse affect.

ON earth, warming leads to cooling and the cooling evenutally became an ice age.

The snowball theory in a very constricted nutshell

Answer 10

Impact of meteor in the Yucatan pennisula. Read up on the K-T boundary.