"He must, so know the starfish and the student biologist who sits at the feet of living things, proliferate in all
directions. Having certain tendencies, he must move along their lines to the limit of their potentialities."

John Steinbeck - Log from the Sea of Cortez

Saturday, March 27, 2010

No, it wasn't the asteroid

Well, we had a definitive answer for about a week. Now a new paper in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology points toward climate change as the driving force behind the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary extinctions.

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