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thereareeyesinsidethetrees · 6 days ago

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ae recently learned that it’s likely that the impact of the meteor itself is not what wiped out the dinosaurs, but rather the meteor essentially disintegrating immediately and polluting the air that killed them

#in that sense it’s kinda like. a mix of the two most popular theories?#cause ‘really fuckin big volcano ‘splosion killed em’ was a common idea for a while #and it wasn’t the eruption itself but rather the pollution of the air as a result that was thought to have killed them #so it was a meteor that hit the earth that then polluted the air #(and while ae’m sure plenty died from toxins in the air or straight up suffocation)#(a lot more died because the plant life died and thus. starvation)#(also because the earth’s atmosphere hangs in a precarious balance and has caused mass extinctions on several occasions)#(hell literal bacteria just existing caused a global warming event when life was first getting its footing)#(we uh. we like science channels. we just don’t retain the actually important stuff)#(like how exactly the ‘whoopsie the earth’s gaseous contents are out of whack!’ thing works)#(what part of it? idk somethin about carbon dioxide probably)#(that definitely killed a fuck ton of things at least once)#(cause life started out breathing carbon dioxide and then started suffocating when oxygen became more abundant)#(and now we have a balancing act between plants and animals and those Other Things™️)#(y’know what? just. watch paleo analysis’ history of earth series and gutsick gibbon’s mass extinction video)#(they’ll both explain this shit infinitely better than ae can)

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