Grounded

Volcanoes wiped out the dinosaurs? Wasn't it a giant asteroid crashing into planet Earth you say? Consider the following, from May 2009 in the Daily Mail:

Bang goes that theory: Dinosaur extinction due to volcano NOT asteroid

"The dinosaurs were wiped out by volcanoes that erupted in India about sixty five million years ago, according to new research.

For the last thirty years scientists have believed a giant meteorite that struck Chicxulub in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was responsible for the mass extinction of species, including T Rex and its cousins.

But now Professor Gerta Keller says fossilized traces of plants and animals dug out of low lying hills at El Penon in northeastern Mexico show this event happened 300,000 years after the dinosaurs disappeared." Read more