Re: asteroids and dinosaurs

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In a message dated 96-05-06 15:39:48 EDT, nking.ucs@smtp.usi.edu (King, Norm)
writes:

>I have had students who say they won't believe the impact scenario until 
>we find concentrations of scorched dinosaur bones at the K-T layer!

Even this would only show that _certain_ dinosaurs _may have been_ killed by
the K-T impact (after all, the bones could have been scorched shortly after
the dinosaurs died from more natural causes, such as flooding). And even if
those particular dinosaurs _were_ killed by the impact, it would _still_ be
premature to extrapolate the discovery to _all dinosaurs, everywhere_(!).