# The scientists have it wrong again

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**Category:** Macro Economic Trends and Risks\
**Created:** [November 1, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/the-scientists-have-it-wrong-again/97899 "2023-11-01T16:17:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leap1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/leap1/32/72176_2.png) [@Leap1](https://discussion.fool.com/u/Leap1)\
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In a barn fire getting the horses out of the barn is difficult because the horses will run back into the barn for security.

What happens to a horse in a barn fire? The horse has much larger lungs proportionally to its body than a human being has. The horse will die as it breathes the smoke. We humans for a little longer can enter the smoke to get the horses out if possible.

That is what happened to the dinosaurs. The larger animals would have had very large lungs when the meteor hit. The mammal that survived a vol-like animal in China our forerunner was underground where the particles would not have been as bad.

> **[Asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs halted a key process for life on Earth,...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/asteroid-doomed-dinosaurs-halted-key-150115203.html)**
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> Fine dust thrown up into Earth’s atmosphere after an asteroid strike 66 million years ago blocked the sun to an extent that plants were unable to photosynthesize, a new study has found.

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**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/the-scientists-have-it-wrong-again/97899/2 "2023-11-01T16:55:42Z")

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> [@Leap1](#):
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> The mammal that survived a vol-like animal in China our forerunner was underground where the particles would not have been as bad.

Many species of turtles survived in North America, essentially living under water and estivating.

> **[How Tough Turtles Survived Dino-Killing Meteor](https://www.livescience.com/14984-tough-turtles-survive-extinction-event.html)**
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> New fossil localities from North Dakota and Montana have produced the remains of a turtle that survived the 65 million-year-old meteorite impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. What makes these turtles so tough?

DB2

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**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/the-scientists-have-it-wrong-again/97899/3 "2023-11-02T01:43:30Z")

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Who did you hear that an asteroid doomed the dinosaurs in the first place? A scientist maybe?