The ‘Liquid’ Asteroid –That Ushered in the Rise of Homo Sapiens
Gerta keller, a Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions, says of the Chicxulub event: “It’s like a fairy tale: ‘Big rock from sky hits the dinosaurs, and boom they go.’ And it has all the aspects of a really nice story. It’s just not true.”