It Wasn't Just the Asteroid!

Interesting (to me, anyway) story about what may or may not have caused the dinosaurs' demise in addition to that big old asteroid.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/we-still-don-t-know-why-the-reign-of-the-dino...

Have you ever met anyone who isn’t fascinated by the dinosaur extinction? The thing is I never come away from articles about alternate factors, Deccan Traps, reduction in dinosaur diversity or numbers pre K/Pg asteroid event with a sense that there’s a convincing smoking gun. I think there’s a strong “we just don’t know” to the topic, and yet the one thing we know for sure is Chicxulub. This article, for example talks about “maybe there’s more”, and most of the rest of the article isn’t about other factors but about why the species that survived managed to do so.

Anyway, I did make this hopefully fun video about the relatively new possible evidence from that fateful day:

https://youtu.be/1znVY4-aNlQ

And this one about the mammal recovery in the hundreds of thousands of years after the event:

https://youtu.be/VS0tLBmZ5w4