extinctions

Interesting article in The New Yorker Magazine https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died An article about the discovery of a site containing fossils that almost certainly were directly killed by the Chicxulub impact. The site is also peppered with tektites and...

In the popular notion of comets or large meteorites causing the extinction of dinasaurs, what's the explanation for the continued existence of turtles and alligators? Did they simply duck it out in the mud? If that's the case, why did the marine dinosaurs crap out?

Christopher Hitchens, in his debate with Al Sharpton, says over 98.9 percent of species that ever existed on Earth are now extinct. I've heard that figure before as an argument against design: If all those species no longer exist, how could life be designed by a perfect creator? But it...

I didn't want to derail the thread, but I was wondering... I'd read any number of times (when I was much younger) that a couple of Wooly Mammoths had been found frozen with undigested food still in their systems. As I recall, the food was plants that would not have normally been found under...

Now I'm no paleontologist, so I wonder if anyone can help me out with this one and follow the thinking below. ID/Creationists make many wild claims, but for the sake of argument lets assume the claim is correct that the Earth is 6,000 years old. We have a reasonable record of human history...