Can scientists prove what caused dinosaur extinction?
Can scientists prove what caused dinosaur extinction?
1. Review the webpage entitled “The Great Mystery” at ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/extinction. Then search the term “Hell Creek Formation” & pay a virtual visit to the best fossil record of dinosaur extinction. List your favorite virtual visit website(s).
2. Why are even the best fossil localities only imperfect records of extinction?
3. Why is it so difficult to reconstruct global paleoecology at the end of the Cretaceous? 4. Why are “why” questions in paleontology so difficult to answer?
