{"id":2684,"date":"2004-11-01T22:24:31","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T02:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/11\/01\/throw-the-dinos-on-the-barbie\/"},"modified":"2004-11-01T22:24:31","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T02:24:31","slug":"throw-the-dinos-on-the-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/11\/01\/throw-the-dinos-on-the-barbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Throw the Dinos on the Barbie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When we were a kid, it was common knowledge that the dinosaurs had
\n been wiped
\nout
\nin one fell swoop by
\na
\nmassive asteroid striking the earth. Of course, like most of the fabulous common
\n knowledge back in the day, it was soon proven to be folderol by a new
\ngeneration of much smarter scientists, who said the disappearance of the dinosaurs
\ntook place over millions of years and was due to climate change.<\/p>\n

Guess what! Turns out favorite scientific theories are just like those favorite
\npsychedelic ties in the back of our closet; if you survive long enough, they
\ncome back into style.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

YAXCOPOIL, Mexico (Reuters) – One minute you’re a big
\n T-Rex, the next you’re toast.<\/p>\n

Challenging conventional theory, new scientific research suggests the dinosaurs
\n may have been scorched into extinction by an asteroid collision 65 million years
\n ago that unleashed 10 billion times more power than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n

Earth’s temperatures soared, the sky turned red and trees all over the planet
\n burst into flames, said atmospheric physicist Brian Toon of the University of
\n Colorado<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

from Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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