Is SCIENCE!!!! still weird and cool in 2025? You betcha.

[Mendalla]

Some of the most significant events in the development of life on Earth are the major mass extinctions. The best known of those is the K-Pg (Cretaceous-Paleogene) in which 75 or so percent of species became extinct, including the non-avian dinosaurs (and even among the avian ones, aka birds, toothed ones largely died off leaving just the ones with beaks we know today), and the large marine reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. The hypothesis that an impact by a large body like a comet or asteroid did a lot of the damage in that event dates to the 80s and we've known the location of the impact since the 90s (Chicxulub Crater on the North side of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula), but the details are still being debated. Here's GeoGirl, a postdoc at the University of South Carolina, in partnership with the Geological Society of America discussing some of the latest work studying that catastrophic event.

 

[Luce NDs]

More theories ... no proof because few survived the process, but it does create space in psyche for the abstract side ... downstream from a light wind ... breezy (bust of the Zae)! This query always arises when one questions whether the wind causes water movement or the opposite ... and the water freezes ... kohl, eh!