Still bucking theory of how dinosaurs died

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, October, 2006 | by Tom Avril

As most everyone knows, a meteor struck Earth with violent force 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs. The crater was discovered in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula barely 15 years ago, yet already schoolchildren can recite the easy-to-grasp explanation for the end of an epoch. Problem: Gerta Keller thinks it is flat-out wrong.

Keller, a Princeton University geoscientist, continued her contrarian quest against the scientific mainstream yesterday, presenting new evidence she says paints a more complicated picture of the dinosaurs' demise. Addressing scientists at a national geology conference at the Convention Center, Keller said new rock and soil samples from Texas, taken not far from the Bush family ranch, confirm her previous assertion that the huge meteor hit...