{"id":46365,"date":"2018-08-13T19:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T23:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/?post_type=cool-stuff-found&#038;p=46365"},"modified":"2018-08-13T20:10:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:10:17","slug":"gerta-keller-deccan-traps-dinosaur-theory","status":"publish","type":"cool-stuff-found","link":"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/es\/cool-stuff-found\/gerta-keller-deccan-traps-dinosaur-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"So, It Might Not Have Been an Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of have heard about the big asteroid (6 miles long) that smacked the Earth 66 million years ago and created a nuclear winter that killed the dinosaurs. It&#8217;s pretty accepted, though it remains a theory. Well&#8230;maybe not. Professor Gerta Keller is leading the charge gathering mounting evidence that the timeline doesn&#8217;t match up. According to her, the\u00a0Chicxulub asteroid hit 200,000 years before the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. And what she thinks did it is the same thing blamed for other extinction events, massive volcano eruptions that lasted\u2014in this case\u201460,000 years. There in a part of India called the Deccan Traps today, though we don&#8217;t know what the dinosaurs called them. Those eruptions do line up with the extinction event nicely. Apparently, all this evidence is causing quite the hubbub in academia, and <em>The Atlantic<\/em> has a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/09\/dinosaur-extinction-debate\/565769\/\">very long and detailed story<\/a> about the whole thing. It&#8217;s fascinating. The image included is from the Deccan Traps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":46370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-46365","cool-stuff-found","type-cool-stuff-found","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>So, It Might Not Have Been an Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs - The Mac Observer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A scientist has mounting evidence that massive volcanic eruptions at the Deccan Traps, not an asteroid, that caused the dionsaurs to die.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/es\/cool-stuff-found\/gerta-keller-deccan-traps-dinosaur-theory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"So, It Might Not Have Been an Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A scientist has mounting evidence that massive volcanic eruptions at the Deccan Traps, not an asteroid, that caused the dionsaurs to die.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/es\/cool-stuff-found\/gerta-keller-deccan-traps-dinosaur-theory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Mac Observer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MacObserver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-08-14T00:10:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/deccan-traps-india.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@MacObserver\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Tiempo de lectura\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minuto\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.macobserver.com\\\/es\\\/cool-stuff-found\\\/gerta-keller-deccan-traps-dinosaur-theory\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.macobserver.com\\\/es\\\/cool-stuff-found\\\/gerta-keller-deccan-traps-dinosaur-theory\\\/\",\"name\":\"So, It Might Not Have Been an Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs - 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