FOSSILS ET AL.

Did the Asteroid Get Too Much Credit for Dinosaur Extinction?

How Earth’s ancient collapse mirrors the terrifying trends driving today’s climate crisis

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When you imagine the cataclysmic downfall of the dinosaurs, two inevitable scenes come to mind: first, a massive hurtling across the sky and crashing against our planet; then, the consequential chaos with erupting in fiery display.

That is the conventional story associated with the downfall of dinosaurs.

However, recent geological evidence suggests that the dinosaurs were already grappling with extreme climatic shifts before the asteroid’s impact from relentless volcanic activity.

It may be time to rewrite those childhood dinosaur-dooming memories.

A Battle of Cosmic and Terrestrial Forces

The extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, known as the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction, has fascinated scientists and the general public for decades. The conventional narrative points to a 6-mile-wide asteroid that crashed into the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, creating the in present-day Mexico as the primary cause. This cataclysmic event led…