Soot May Have Killed off the Dinosaurs and Ammonites

Soot May Have Killed off the Dinosaurs and Ammonites

Soot May Have Killed off the Dinosaurs and Ammonites
Tohoku University, July 15, 2016
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/tu-smh071416.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160715113558.htm

"A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and
ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous Period has
been proposed by a research team."

Darkness Falls On the Dinosaurs
By Marcia Bjornerud , New Yorker, July 14, 2016
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/darkness-falls-on-the-dinosaurs

The paper is:

Kaiho, K/. N. Oshima, K.Adachi, Y. Adachi, T. Mizukami,
M. Fujibayashi, and R. Saito, 2016, Global climate change
driven by soot at the K-Pg boundary as the cause of the
mass extinction. Scientific Reports, 2016; 6: 28427
DOI: 10.1038/srep28427
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep28427

A slightly related article is:

Small town in Mexico honors meteorite that
changed life on Earth. Latino Fox News, July 05, 2016
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/07/05/small-town-in-mexico-honors-meteorite-that-changed-life-on-earth

Yours,

Paul H.