by Marc Phillippe Babineau

Created on: April 05, 2009   Last Updated: April 09, 2009

Many of the animals that inhabit the planet Earth during the era of the dinosaurs were not wiped out with the mass-extinction event that made the dinosaurs extinct. However, science has proven that for the dinosaurs to have all perished when they did, there would have had to be a "cataclysmic extinction event". An example of this would be a huge meteorite hitting the Earth, causing major earthquakes, Tsunamis, Continental movement and mass extinction of air-breathing animals.

The air after a meteorite strike would have been thick with ash and sand, and the Sun's rays would not get through, causing darkness and loss of plant life, otherly known as dinosaur food for the vegetarian broods. As the slower moving behemoth vegetarian dinosaurs were wiped out due to hunger because their food was dying due to lack of lack of photosynthesis, or other reasons, the meat eaters started running out of food to eat, and started hunting, fighting and eating each other.

Air breathing dinosaurs would have been the first, non-direct-event caused deaths for the breed. Whatever it was that happened, the air was filled with sand and dust, dirt and rock, gasses and other vapours that were all counter-productive to the breathing process. Water-borne dinosaurs would have been the last to fade away, as the waters in the Oceans would have heated up, and plankton and other feed would have died.

The most widely accepted version of the extinction of the dinosaurs is what is called the "K.T. Event". The K.T. Event refers to a meteor striking the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico about 13.5 Million years ago. Needless to say, the Catholic church is none too pleased with this formulation, as the Earth is only 7,000 years old according to their doctrine. And mankind really does not know how long some of the Sharks and whales in the Oceans today have been living under the water's surface. Many may pre-date dinosaurs.

From the positioning of dinosaur skeletons, groupings of them where they were all killed at the same time, where they stood, seems to back up the cataclysmic event theories. Aliens abducting them? Not so much. People hunting them for food and clothing? We weren't that smart yet. There are large groups of people that vehemently adhere to the theory that Aliens abducted the dinosaurs, and took them to their own planet for hunting and food. Makes more sense than a few cave men hunting and killing them all, within a few millions years.

What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? Something did. They existed, we have their skeletons and fossils to prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt. And they all died at relatively (relative to the age of the Planet Earth) the same time. For the number of the animals that were made to be extinct, estimated at roughly 85% of the animal population, whatever it was had to have been big.

Big enough to make the Gulf of Mexico? Probably.

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