{"id":1431,"date":"2012-09-11T17:04:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T17:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2012-09-11T17:04:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T17:04:34","slug":"the-last-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/11\/the-last-straw\/","title":{"rendered":"The last straw&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second Gunman in Death of the Dinosaurs<br \/>\nA cunning study of geology, shells and ancient magnetism offers clues to a long-ago extinction<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.time.com\/2012\/09\/11\/second-gunman-in-death-of-the-dinosaurs\/?hpt=hp_t3\">http:\/\/science.time.com\/2012\/09\/11\/second-gunman-in-death-of-the-dinosaurs\/?hpt=hp_t3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems that the great dinosaur killer asteroid wasn&#8217;t such a great dinosaur killer after all.  More like it gave the coup de grace to an ecosystem already heavily damaged by a string of environmental catastrophes.  I have read several discussions in the past where, while the impact was certainly huge (monumental by human standards), it shouldn&#8217;t have been enough to cause such a global extinction.  There should have been more than enough resilience in the ecosystem to absorb the impact (no pun intended) and while it is likely there would have been a lot of species vanish, the slate wouldn&#8217;t have been wiped so clean that mammals would have been able to take over.  However, as this (and other) research is showing, it seems that the Earth&#8217;s ecosystem was already reeling from a series of &#8216;self inflicted&#8217; wounds and that the asteroid impact was just the last little bit to push every one over the edge.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Gunman in Death of the Dinosaurs A cunning study of geology, shells and ancient magnetism offers clues to a long-ago extinction http:\/\/science.time.com\/2012\/09\/11\/second-gunman-in-death-of-the-dinosaurs\/?hpt=hp_t3 It seems that the great dinosaur killer asteroid wasn&#8217;t such a great dinosaur killer after all. More like it gave the coup de grace to an ecosystem already heavily damaged by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/09\/11\/the-last-straw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The last straw&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}