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Luis Walter Alvarez, left, and his son Walter, right, at the K–T Boundary in Gubbio, Italy, 1981. The Alvarez hypothesis posits that the mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was caused by the impact of a large asteroid on the Earth.
Roy Lee Moodie proposed that dinosaurs were killed off by diseases. [7] Examples of the pathological health conditions Moodie thought contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs included arthritis, dental cavities, fractures, and infections. [19] 1925. Paleobotanist George Wieland hypothesized that Tyrannosaurus rex survived on a diet of eggs.
In the oceans, the K–Pg extinction killed off plesiosaurs and mosasaurs and devastated teleost fish, [27] sharks, mollusks (especially ammonites, which became extinct), and many species of plankton. It is estimated that 75% or more of all species on Earth vanished. [28]
The study shows that the asteroid, while having a severe initial impact, did not immediately kill off the dinosaurs - instead slowly killing them off over a few years.
The asteroid that killed most dinosaurs 66 million years ago left behind traces of its own origin. Researchers think they know where the Chicxulub impactor came from based on levels of ruthenium.
Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid killed off the dinosaurs. So how can we can we humans stop an asteroid from wiping us out, too?
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The researchers said that of all the cosmic bodies they have studied that struck Earth in the last 500 million years, only the one that exterminated the dinosaurs was a water-rich asteroid.