• Question: How did dinoaurs die?

    Asked by Dr.Brian to Alex, Anaïs, Peter, Sarwat, Shreesha on 6 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by Tom.
    • Photo: Sarwat Iqbal

      Sarwat Iqbal answered on 6 Mar 2015:

      There is no clear answer to this.
      For a number of years, scientists focused on explanations for how the extinction might have occurred. Most theories focused on climate change, by volcanism, lowering sea level, and shifting continents. There were few other theories, some reasonable but others rather far-fetched. Anyway, most of these theories shared the common thought that dinosaurs had reached the end of their evolutionary life. Their extinction was seen as inevitable, the product of having evolved for too long. In most extinction scenarios, the dinosaurs were simply unable to cope with competition from mammals and the changing climate, and so they all went extinct.

    • Photo: Peter Maskell

      Peter Maskell answered on 6 Mar 2015:

      nobody knows,

      my favorite theory is that an asteroid or comet hit the earth and wiped out dinosaurs.

    • Photo: Shreesha Bhat

      Shreesha Bhat answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      Its all speculation out there, so imagination is the limit!

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