What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?

One of science's biggest mysteries — what caused the dinosaurs to go extinct — may have finally been put to rest.

Thanks to this recently published study in Science, we might have finally learned the truth behind what really killed dinosaurs once and for all.

It’s been told that an asteroid more than 10-kilometers across slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula, putting an end to the dinosaur's long reign. But the actual ‘cause of death’ has been the center of a decades-long raging controversy.

Many scientists have argued for alternative theories to explain what brought on the dinosaur’s final days, including cosmic rays, an outbreak of disease, or as we previously reported, an inferno of blazing wildfires. But aside from the asteroid, there is another competing theory involving massive volcanic eruptions that happened around the same time, leading to some confusion over which is the actual culprit.

Find out more about how this newfound research could provide a definitive timeline that could likely end the decades-old argument in this Elements.

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Asteroid impact, not volcanic eruptions, killed the dinosaurs
"In a Yale-led study, published today in Science, analysis of marine fossils and climate models shows that the major release of volcanic gasses, thought by some to contribute to the extinction, happened about 200,000 years before the asteroid impact, making the asteroid the sole driver of the extinction event."

The Nastiest Feud in Science
"Before the asteroid hypothesis took hold, researchers had proposed other, similarly bizarre explanations for the dinosaurs’ demise: gluttony, protracted food poisoning, terminal chastity, acute stupidity, even Paleo-weltschmerz—death by boredom."

How an asteroid ended the age of the dinosaurs
"Around 75% of Earth's animals, including dinosaurs, suddenly died out at the same point in time. So how was it all caused by a rock hurtling into the coast of Central America?"

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[bgsputra]

Asteroid : "Prepare for trouble"
Volcano : "And Make it double"

[AliAlhussaini]

Dinosaurs saw humans coming and committed suicide, can’t blame them

[Sticklemako]

Blame the dang squirrel...he messed with the alien spaceship

[aalegge]

Alternate theory: Dinos couldn't get past using fossil fuels and caused their own extinction.

Alternate ALTERNATE theory: Some dinos' arms were too short to put masks on during a pandemic, and some turned it into a political issue and simply refused.

[ignorasmus]

As a person who was born and raised on the Deccan plateau, I feel the need to clarify that I had nothing to do with it.

I have an alibi.

[shannonlove]

This isn’t a murder mystery wherein only one murderer exist. Every single factor identified, probably contributed.

Monocausality in complex systems is always foolish.

[potatomatop]

The Raid Shadow Legends creator killed the Dinosaurs.

[DevKulkarni]

Never thought area around my city was geologically unique or had multiple volcanos blowing out lava for 30000 years. I'm shocked I didn't know this. Thank you.

[dannypope]

If you really cared about global warming, you’d be honest about nuclear power. We could have been carbon free 20 years ago if people didn’t lie about nuclear.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

So the asteroid that made the Chixculub Crater wasn't what directly killed the dinosaurs, but it caused their extinction indirectly.

Makes sense

[SagaciousEagle]

Is anyone else trying to figure out the object being reflected off the glasses?

[SciFactsYT]

Completely random fact:

The word “kimono”, literally means a “thing to wear”. Ki is “wear”, and mono is “thing”.

[bobhager]

Next year, what actually really killed the dinosaurs.

[llothsedai]

The fact we know this, means we have a huge leg up compared to the dinosaurs when our time rolls around.

[Hunting]

I learned this at my University, It definitely wasn't a big rock 😂

[Shaden]

Though the volcanoes started erupting before the impact, they increased their activity AFTER the impact being almost inlove as an antipode of the impact site, resulting in more pronounced volcanic eruptions and increased tectonic plate movement, especially in the movement of Indian and the opening of the Indian Ocean.

[liebendeinsam]

True fact:
Earth was an Alien sewer deposit. The dinosaurs died from excessive pollution.

[JarfMay]

It was a giant floating brain zapping all the dinosaurs

[ChristyMedia-bx]

You guys are doing amazing work, thanks a lot for making videos.

[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
― Carl Sagan