Evidence Shows We Don't Really Know What Killed The Dinosaurs

Science as it should be. Ever changing with new knowledge.

At 4:00 the volcano isn't located IN the current location of the Indian subcontinent, the Deccan traps themselves are a 'large igneous province' and their formation was most probably driven by eruptions coming from a mantel plume located under what is now called Reunion Islands as the Indian plate drifted over it going northwards, after its separation from current Madagascar and the African plate. This volcanic activity still continues at the Reunion hotspot in the Indian Ocean, similar to how mantel plumes made the Hawaii islands.

Imagine all those dinosaurs dying of starvation in such a short time span. It must have been hell. Heartbreaking

First, it's true that no ideas about how the actual extinction process has been accepted as "theory". However blast material from this crater has been found all over the world. For that to have happened, this material would have been blasted almost into low earth orbit. That's about the only way you get material all over the earth. What would happen on coming back down to the earth is like anything else, gravity. It would have been superheated (and the material found suggests this). Superheated material falling down all over the earth about the same time space would have burned the air, which then would have burned the surface, and there is evidence of burning at the KT extinction boundary. So, this isn't FACT, and I don't even think it's been accepted as theory, but right now it seems very plausible that most animals and plants were wiped out within the first few hours and they never had to worry about a nuclear winter. They would have been fried inside and out.

I recognize that it's more speculation at this point, but I think it's important to note that the Deccan traps are basically at the antipode of the Chixculub crater, where the seismic waves would have converged. Volcanism might very well might have been the result of the impact itself, or at least an incredibly powerful accelerant.

In large scale extinction events it is almost NEVER one single event that leads to it but a collection of events that culminate and compound together to make survival extremely challenging. Saying it was the asteroid alone is a bit silly from the start.

Thank you, Anton. Hope you are doing ok.

The idea that there was a long impact winter has always baffled me. The shear number of Crocodilians that survived the catastrophe is direct evidence against it.

Birds are just the modern version of a branch of theropod dinosaurs, called Avian Dinosaurs which were basically birds that coexisted with the rest of dinosaurs for tens of million years... Dinosaurs...My favorite topic.

9:28 - an opencast coal mine with rugby posts in the distance. That has to be south Wales.