Meteor Impact Site

Some say the meteor that struck the Yucatan peninsula killed off dinosaurs and led to the development of present-day mammals.

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[chakazul]

So... if another large meteor hit Earth and kill all people, maybe some millions of years later, a more intelligent species will come out, which is not a bad thing :P

[CheshireShade]

I recall a documentary I just watched yesterday that basically said that it wasn't just a meteorite that would have killed off the dinosaurs.

Apparently it was a number of factors, including climate change, moving of the titanic plates, plus several meteorites in different locations of the world which resulted in the slow extinction of the dinosaur age.

Truth be told, we don't have a complete picture but pieces of one.

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@DannyTheSeeker I tried to understand what you were saying, but it was a bit difficult. There were repeated events of a supercontinent, not just Pangaea. Any supercontinent is doomed to break up because of pressure build-up that is strongest under its center. Then the tectonic movements eventually bring them back together by closing some oceans at subduction zones and expanding others at mid-ocean ridges. No, they don't float freely, but the actual explanation is pretty long.

[MelyssaAKASkittlez]

@CheshireShade Also flood basalt eruptions, if I remember correctly.

[pfevrier01]

So, they want us tobelieve that only small mammals below earth survived! South-America has Mammals similar to Africa. The Jaguar,Lama,..and others couldn't develope the same way in S-America, and on the other site of the Ocean. Un-true

[mphello]

4m4s Is that what I think it is? A mole centipede?

Sorry, Tom Six: you weren't the first to think of that.

[jaykulls]

@Apoic123 Hail the ants!!

[Apoic123]

mabye ants will rule the world and insectoids!

[DannyTheSeeker]

@Usernamejanjacob39 agree! or maybe the pressure of the air that they couldn't hold. or any other natural cause. but the meteor is a NONSENSE DONKEY SHIT !!!

[DannyTheSeeker]

"Some say bla bla bla ...".

this theory was made up to extinct dinosaur 100 year ago (keep that in mind). at that time they don't have technology like today, the pangea continent are collaps, there is no big continent! and the continent aren't flow freely in the sea!

[GepardoSnaiperis]

kangaroo

[WasSuPdErEk]

u guys are nerds for watching this movie