//Against this backdrop it is not surprising that dinosaurs all died out.//

They didn't. The modern scientific consensus is that birds are theropod dinosaurs.

I feel all religious about this bold new theory. It resolves my need for a new, true, God.

I understand fragments of the Meteor not only exist in Jurassic Park and the Land Before Time but in Area 51 and Trump's new oil policy.

'Japanese researchers at Tohuku University and the Meteorological Research Institute authored a recent study in the research journal Scientific Reports suggesting that a meteor impact 66 million years ago on an oil rich region of Yucatan Peninsula led to the death of the dinosaurs'

and yeah believers in God are accused of fairytales. Please!!

I just don't know and can't confirm anybody else does. Even so anything is possible if also plausible!?

That said, the paleontological record seems to say that another more disastrous extinction event occurred around 90 million years ago as a consequence of increased widespread volcanic activity, that poured massive additional Co2 into the atmosphere, increasing average ambient temperatures by 2C?

Enough it would seem to allow the frozen tundra to melt (happening now) releasing millions of tons of formerly frozen methane, which is around 21 times more efficacious as a greenhouse gas than Co2, pushed ambient temperatures up by a further 3C, or in combination by a further 5C in total?

And enough it would seem to very nearly destroy all life on planet earth?

We don't need a catastrophic event to destroy all life on planet earth, when simple greed compounded by willful ignorance will do the job!

Strangely, friends of the earth are cooperating by actively preventing the application of nuclear power, even if rolled out as vastly less problematic thorium, which is old fifties technology, abandoned it would seem, given there was no weapons spin off!

Continued as intensely ignorant activism, even as we enter uncharted Co2 level territory!?
Alan B.

So not only does oil give us the opportunity for a great life, rather than the short harsh & brutal affair it was for most before it's development, but without it we would never have existed, other than as a small probably 4 legged afternoon snack for a dinosaur.

Oil be praised.

Einstein evolved the science that God does not play dice but thank the lord the meteorite struck oil not uranium.
Mitch, a spokesperson for affected Indigenous families at Angela Pamela, said Aboriginal people were being forced to override their cultural rules by joining the uranium venture.

Mitch said under traditional beliefs the Angela Pamela uranium deposits were located on "poison" land. It's all women's country through there and we have strong laws that this part of country can't be touched because it is poisonous; it is no good land.

Mutant nuclear dinosaurs would damage ecology and ritual cultures worse than Zika virus and downsize profits , maybe causing European slavery in south American cocaine Tyrannosaurus dictatorships.

I do note a difference between a ground,crude oil fire and a German diesel motor.

The "Door to Hell" (also known as the Gate to Hell, the Crater of Fire, Darvaza Crater) is a natural gas field in Derweze, Turkmenistan, that collapsed into an underground cavern in 1971, becoming a natural gas crater. Geologists set it on fire to prevent the spread of methane gas, and it has been burning continuously since then. The diameter of the crater is 69 metres (226 ft), and its depth is 30 metres (98 ft).
Diesel produces nitrous oxide and methane . Soot which is probably heat-retaining and radiating to the air. The dust mix would be cooling and sunlight-blocking so the result would be increasing coolness even with gases from burnt forests.

One theory I heard years ago, along similar lines, was that the server climate change led to them being born either all males, or all females.

This theory came from research gathered from croc farming where it was found that crocs, bred outside of their natural habitat, we born either all male or all female. So perhaps this has some merit as well.