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    advantages (Benton et al. 2014). These factors enabled the dinosaurs to undergo adaptive radiation following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. The Cretaceous/ Tertiary (K/T) boundary is associated with the mass extinction of dinosaurs, a geological event that dates back approximately 65 million years (Brisman et al. 2001). The extinction of dinosaurs is commonly attributed to a large bolide impacting the Earth and a massive series of volcanic eruptions at the end of the Cretaceous period…

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    Marine Species Extinction

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    to face one major problem that they cannot resist it from happens which is extinction of their own kinds. This issue is what most human just ignore about and they tend not to deal with it. History of Earth shows that there are five major extinction events and the fifth extinction is the one that killed every dinosaur on the Earth surface as a result of an asteroid. Earth is now in the eve of sixth extinction as humanity has become the asteroid that would drive species to extinction even quickly…

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    How did the dinosaurs die There are many theories on how the dinosaurs became extinct over 100 million years ago. The theory that is most common, is the asteroid theory. The asteroid theory proposes the idea that an asteroid hit the earth, reduced levels of sunlight, and dropped temperatures, resulting in plants being unable to grow, the plant eaters dying, and leaving no food for the meat eaters. This theory is like a major chain reaction, wiping out every dinosaur on the planet. Another…

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    K-T Extinction Essay

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    The extinction of the dinosaurs is one of the most well-known mysteries in our great world, the Earth has its history in the layers, these layers can tell us when, where, and how something happened, the K-T boundary is no exception. These large slabs of Earth can show us the past, millions of years of history, to the beginning. What scientists around the world are trying to figure out, is why the dinosaurs died out, there are many different and unique theories about the K-T extinction. Some…

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    In her book The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert writes that there have been five mass extinctions in the history of planet earth. She asserts that currently the earth is on the precipice of a sixth mass extinction. In contrast with the previous five, according to Kolbert this sixth extinction is almost entirely caused by humans and our exploitation of the earth. In each of the book’s thirteen chapters, Kolbert highlights a particular species that is now extinct and analyzes the causes and…

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    The Chicxulub Impact

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    Stage 1: What caused the Chicxulub Impactor to enter the Earth’s atmosphere and hit Earth (2) About 65 million years ago an asteroid that is roughly 10 kilometres across, hit Earth on the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It caused a huge explosion and left a crater that is about 185 kilometres across. This asteroid impact is commonly known to be the reason for the extinction of three quarters of the dinosaurs. (4) The asteroid soared through the sky at more than 40 times the speed of…

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    This article is intended to discuss the causes that led to the death of the dinosaurs. It mainly exposes the two alternative hypotheses that might have caused this mass extinction by explaining the main reasoning behind each of these premises. The author exposes the points of views of different scientists and geologists in regards to the death of the dinosaurs, which- somehow- remains one of the most heated and contested “battles in science”. Particularly, the paper explains the stance of one…

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    Almost 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth, newly formed, had possibly the hottest climate in the planet’s extensive past. Temperatures were scorching, enough to liquefy rocks. As radioactive elements located in Earth’s core decay, they generate heat and pressure shoving molten rock toward Earth’s surface. Along with bringing molten rock to the surface, volcanoes also released heat and emitted carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, initiating the greenhouse effect which leads on to global warming.…

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    What’s the Right Theory About the Dinosaurs? In many theories about the dinosaurs disappearing many say meteors are the reason, is that true? The many theories about dinosaurs disappearing is a huge meteor or asteroid,climate change, volcanic eruptions, lava,and fractured crystals. At the same time there are over 40 theories of why the dinosaurs disappeared, but I only listed the most important ones that were mentioned the most. The biggest theory of all of them is the Asteroid , people think…

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    Without Edgar from William’s Shakespeare’s King Lear taking responsibility for himself and for his father, the Earl of Gloucester, he would not be able to comprehend hardship and guide both himself and his father through suffering. When his life plans to become Earl of Gloucester veer off his expected path, Edgar immerses himself in a pit of desire. He has to transform his outlook on life to take responsibility for himself and for his father before he can understand that the world is not a…

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