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    The last dinosaurs walked this earth over 65 million years ago. Although the cause of extinction is still a mystery. There are many leading theories why A big meteorite crashed into Earth, changing the climatic conditions so dramatically that dinosaurs could not survive,Ash and gas spewing from volcanoes suffocated many of the dinosaurs,diseases wiped out entire populations of dinosaurs food chain imbalances lead to the starvation of the dinosaurs. Why there are so much reasons and no one has

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    Dinosaur Extinction Sixty-Five Million years ago, a giant space rock believed to be some six miles across hit Earth near the town of Chicxulub, Mexico, blasting a crater more than 110 miles wide. The impact is believed to have released as much energy as 100 trillion tons of TNT, more than 1 billion times the power of the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The giant mosasaurs and plesiosaurs in the seas and the pterosaurs in the skies. Plankton, the base of the ocean

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    show. Now for the first time since humans and their ancestors took first steps on this planet, they are above 400 ppm. Current carbon levels in the atmosphere, as far as science can tell, are just behind that of what they were around the extinction of the dinosaurs. Regulations on emissions are a must and should be updated and monitored by all countries around the world. Pushing for clean and sustainable

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    million years ago dinosaurs were wiped out from the land. They ruled the land for 165 million years. What happened to them? A lot of people believe that the the extinction of dinosaurs was from a huge asteroid that killed them. But theories say that was just the final blow to end off the dinosaurs. People say they were dying before that due to climate change. People are skeptical that if it missed dinosaurs and humans would have live together or would they have not. The dinosaurs died due to the climate

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    Some people's views on Germany's defeat and the extinction of dinosaurs are objective and this could be because they are based on either beliefs which have been passed down from time to time, beliefs which have been taught by highly influential people, or scientific evidence. Common sense could also contribute to truths being objective. However, a historian's reasons are seen as subjective due to the fact that, despite the fact they all have the same evidence, they interpretate it in different ways

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    Why dinosaurs disappeared? Sixty six million years ago the Dinosaurs died out with no clear explanation. There are many different theories to why the Dinosaurs became extinct . The possIble Causes of the mass extinction vairy widely. Some of those theories were the Asteroid theory, climate change and volcano theory. The theorys that are most clear to why the dinosaurs died out with the Most evidence is the volcano and asteroid theory , the theorys involved an asteroid hitting into earths surface

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    mind. Today, Nevada stands as the eighth state that enforces background checks on gun sales or transfers, through the work of Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s Question 1 hypostatized Stephen Jay Gould’s article, “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaur” by illustrating the pseudoscience behind establishing universal background checks to limit gun control. David Montero’s “When it Comes to Gun Laws, Nevada Could be Edging Closer to California,” and John Lott’s “The Gun Question,” discuss

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    The Dinosaur Extinction Mystery By Michael Bento EES 112-25; Fall 2016 One of the great unsolved mysteries in our planet’s history is the extinction of dinosaurs. We know they existed through fossil record and with the help of some geological evidence that supports various theories, some stronger than others, we start to narrow down the possible culprit. Dinosaurs evolved and existed for about 180 million years during the Mesozoic era. The Mesozoic is divided into three periods: the Triassic

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    Major Theories Explaining the Extinction of the Dinosaurs There are many theories explaining the extinction of the dinosaur. The Most probable theories are: a massive meteor hit the earth causing the extinction. B. A chain of volcano’s erupted and caused acid rain, shortage of sunlight and any other number of atmospheric problems that brought about the extinction of dinosaurs. C. Rapid Climate Change in a short period of time would have brought the dinosaurs to extinction because of an inability to

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    Clinton Hale English 1301 5/15/17 Sex, Drugs, Disasters and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs The extinction of the dinosaurs, absolutely a thrilling topic. In Steven Gould’s persuasive article he goes into great detail to describe the nature of science and it’s profound nature to help us in the pursuit of knowledge when used correctly. He then begins to describe three scenarios in which could’ve led to the extinction of the dinosaurs in which two while seemingly plausible at first glance are in actuality

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