13:35 Scientists: dinosaurs became extinct because of the growth of the Earth’s gravity – BFM.Ru

The hypothesis of the extinction of the dinosaurs was presented by scientists at the held in Vladivostok conference

The new version of the extinction of the dinosaurs because of the growth of the Earth’s gravity put forward by scientists from Vladivostok.

“There is a long-standing paleontological paradox is that many biological organisms that have left undeniable evidence of the fact of its existence in a stone chronicle of the Earth today dwell on it could not just physically,” – told Tass one of the authors of the hypothesis, the chief researcher of the Institute Marine Biology Anatoly Drozdov.

In his view, confirmed by modern mathematical calculations, there is a force of gravity is not allowed to exist in such huge animals like giant pterosaurs with a wingspan of 12 -15 meters or huge land of dinosaurs weighing dozens of tons.

In order to explain the facts of paleontology Far Eastern scientists suggest their hypothesis causes of extinction of dinosaurs. After analyzing the paleontological data on the evolution of 11 of the largest land animals for 150 million years, they concluded that the giant dinosaurs have evolved in a more low-gravity, which then over 150 million years has increased 2,079 times to the present values.

The reason for these changes, scientists see the increasing mass of the Earth as a result of subsidence at the surface large number of relatively small meteorites and cosmic dust. “This process is theoretically possible as a result of entering the solar system in a dense cloud of interstellar space dust 150-200 million years ago. This process occurs gradually over tens of millions of years, but in the period of 60-100 million years ago, has become very intense, which led to a sharp change of gravity and the rapid extinction of huge lizards. This should increase at the same time and the mass and size of the Earth “, – said Anatoly Drozdov.

« Based on our estimates, over the 150-200 million years of the earth’s surface has increased by 4.32 times, that is. e. to 76.81%, which is quite satisfactory for such a rough estimate, and corresponds to the area of ​​the oceanic crust, and the volume of the Earth has increased by about 9 times “, – he said the scientist.

The hypothesis extinction of the dinosaurs was presented by scientists of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS) and the Far Eastern Federal University (FENU) held in Vladivostok on the scientific conference dedicated to the memory of Academician Vladimir Kasyanov.

The authors intend to look for evidence of his version, for further work involving experts from related disciplines. “Who needed a cosmological model that could prove or disprove such a change in the mass of the planet” – said Drozdov.