How did the dinosours die?

Question

How did the dinosours die?

Answer 1

Why are you asking this under anthropology? Dinosaurs have nothing to do with anthropology

Answer 2

There are dozens of theories to explain a probable cause or causes. Throughout the Mesozoic Era, individual dinosaur species were evolving and becoming extinct for various reasons. The unusually massive extinction at the end of the Cretaceous exterminated the last of the dinosaurs, the flying reptiles, and the large swimming reptiles, as well as many other marine animals. There is now widespread evidence that a meteorite impact was at least the partial cause for this extinction. Impact craters are visible on most planets in our solar system. A spectacular example of this was witnessed in 1994, when Jupiter was struck by a series of cometary fragments. Some of these impact blasts were larger than the Earth's diameter. Other factors such as extensive release of volcanic gases, climatic cooling (with related changes in ocean currents and weather patterns), sea-level change, low reproduction rates, poison gases from a comet, or changes in the Earth's orbit or magnetic field may have contributed to this extinction event.

Answer 3

Personally, I would say that they died after the Great Flood in the Bible. The ecological conditions weren't the same as they were, and the Dinosaurs couldn't adapt before extinction.

Answer 4

It is more proper to ask how they became extinct since they died from predation, disease, etc.  Most dinosaurs became extinct at the end of the Mesozoic era.  The birds, which are a type of dinosaur, in any objective analyses, lived on.  At the end of the Mesozoic, there were at least two big impacts from comets or asteroids a couple hundred thousand years apart.  These may have finished off the dinosaurs but it is far from certain.  Dinosaurs were experiencing so major problems before the extinction event and the number of species was drastically reduced prior to them becoming extinct.

Answer 5

There are a few catastrophe theories. A super volcano that poured  dust and poisonous sulpher in the atmosphere which blocked the sun's light and a  super meteor that did essentially the same.

Believe it or not, there is archaeological evidence for both theories.    Gary  Larson, that famous cartoonist, drew dinosaurs smoking cigarettes....result, they died out from lung cancer.

Answer 6

Asteroid collision

Check out this website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs#E...

Answer 7

Those who believe in dinosaurs believe they were eradicated by an extreme environmental change brought on by an asteroid several miles in length impacting with Earth.  

Since dinosaurs have been found to be reptilian in nature (with some bird-like properties), they were too big and too succeptible to temperature to survive.  Smaller creatures could bury themselves or some had hair to help them survive.

Dinosaurs were a product of a stable world that didn't change.  When it did, they couldn't adapt fast enough and couldn't survive.

Answer 8

They died from the invention of steak houses.