{"id":1504,"date":"2012-09-14T15:31:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T03:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2012-09-14T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T03:35:02","slug":"clambake-extinctions-volcanic-deccan-pies-demise-of-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/clambake-extinctions-volcanic-deccan-pies-demise-of-dinosaurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Clambake Extinctions, Volcanic Deccan Pies &amp; Demise of Dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Most researchers think the dinosaurs, many plants on land, and much of the life in the<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2012\/09\/dinosaur-extinction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1500\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2012\/09\/dinosaur-extinction-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Painting showing dinosaur in landscape and comet hurtling through sky above\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2012\/09\/dinosaur-extinction-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2012\/09\/dinosaur-extinction.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> sea succumbed to a huge cosmic impact 65.5 million years ago. But new evidence from the sea floor just off Antarctica points to a major extinction there a geologic moment before the impact. The culprit in this earlier cataclysm may well have been humongous volcanic eruptions in India\u2014the same eruptions that some researchers have credited with wiping out the dinosaurs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/337\/6100\/1280.full\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/337\/6100\/1280.full<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Most researchers think the dinosaurs, many plants on land, and much of the life in the sea succumbed to a huge cosmic impact 65.5 million years ago. But new evidence from the sea floor just off Antarctica points to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/clambake-extinctions-volcanic-deccan-pies-demise-of-dinosaurs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,5143,473,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-resources","category-evolution-biology","category-for-teachers","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}