Dinosaur extinction dated to a 1000 years

Ziphius

From the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21379024

Researchers from Glasgow University were part of an international team that has been investigating the demise of the dinosaur.

By using dating techniques on rock and ash samples, they established the creatures died out about 66,038,000 years ago - give or take 11,000 years.

so... 66,035,987 BC

And from the paper in Science

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6120/684.full

We suggest that the brief cold snaps in the latest Cretaceous, though not necessarily of extraordinary magnitude, were particularly stressful to a global ecosystem that was well adapted to the long-lived preceding Cretaceous hothouse climate. The Chicxulub impact then provided a decisive blow to ecosystems thus already under critical stress, and in essence pushed the global ecosystem across a threshold that triggered a planetary state shift.

Owryan

very mis-leading thread title .

Was expecting something from the creationist movement proving evolution wrong

Ziphius

Owryan wrote: »

very mis-leading thread title .

Was expecting something from the creationist movement proving evolution wrong

I think 1,000 years is even too recent for a creationists (well, most of them).

Adam Khor

That's just not right Are we supossed to start telling people that dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago?

And now the Jurassic Park tagline is ruined forever...

Capt'n Midnight

If they could find enough overlapping chronologies of stromatolites they could work back to the exact day. Imagine a 3.5 billion year sequence


Love the way the Danes figured out in 2008 that the ice aged ended 11,711 years earlier

And as everyone knows it happened on July 19th

Adam Khor

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

And as everyone knows it happened on July 19th

Not everyone. Explain? :O Hope it's not some sort of joke...

Ziphius

Adam Khor wrote: »

Not everyone. Explain? :O Hope it's not some sort of joke...

Father Ted

Adam Khor

Damn...