Dinosaur

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Dinosaur Dinosaurs: Extinct or Natural Causes As geologic time
goes, all the dinosaurs living on earth suddenly disappeared. How
did these dominated and gigantic creatures really die? Was it a
slow extinction through natural causes, or did it happen
suddenly? These questions give rise to many different beliefs on
how the dinosaurs disappeared over sixty-five million years ago.
Something happened sixty-five million years ago, at the end of
the Cretaceous period that was so devastating that it altered the
course of life on earth. Extinction is easily defined: the birth rate
fails to keep up with the death rate. However, the definition does
not answer the question about the nature or causes of extinction.
Since so many…show more content…
A massive eruption may have saturated the atmosphere with carbon dioxide so the that a sharp rise
in temperature occurred worldwide. The excessive carbon dioxide would have permitted solar
energy to enter the atmosphere but would have blocked the radiation of most surface heat back into
space, causing the “greenhouse effect”. rising temperatures could have killed off or reduced the
activity of plankton, disrupting food chains and also disrupting the plankton’s normal role in
converting carbon dioxide to oxygen through photosynthesis. It would have taken long for
dinosaurs to become extinct. Dinosaurs may have also killed themselves. It is possible that they
consumed poison from plants. The emergence of flowering plants could have poisoned them.
These plants contained alkaloids. Smaller animals with lesser appetites could have survived the
doses, but perhaps the dinosaur could not. Most mammals are smart enough to avoid these poison
ness plants because of the bitter taste. The dinosaurs, however, may have not had the sense or the
liver. They could not taste the bitterness or detoxify the ingested substances. This theory is not
scientifically