[Rockhounds] Did a Supernova Kill Earth's Megafauna 2.5 Million Years Ago?

[Tim Fisher]

Note the word HYPOTHESIS in the title. 

Tim Fisher
Orerockon.com
Email nospam at orerockon.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2018 3:28 PM
To: Rockhound List
Subject: [Rockhounds] Did a Supernova Kill Earth's Megafauna 2.5 Million
Years Ago?

Megalodon may have been killed off by Supernova

radiation, Hannah Osborne, Newsweek, December 13, 2018

https://www.newsweek.com/megalodon-extinct-shark-supernova-cosmic-ray-cancer
-mutations-1256980

Massive supernova explosion may have wiped out giant

prehistoric sharks, scientists say. Megalodon may have

been among creatures driven to extinction after cosmic

particles drove up cancer rates, new study claims

The Independent, Josh Gabbatiss, December 2018

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/supernova-stars-explosion-giant-s
harks-prehistoric-megalodon-extinction-science-a8679636.html

The paper is;

Adrian L. Melott, Franciole Marinho, and Laura Paulucci

2018, Hypothesis: Muon Radiation Dose and Marine

Megafaunal Extinction at the End-Pliocene Supernova.

Astrobiology, Published Online, November 27, 2018

https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2018.1902

Yours,

Paul H.

_______________________________________________
Rockhounds mailing list
Subscription Services:
http://rockhounds.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/rockhounds_rockhounds.drizzle
.com
List Usage Policy: http://Tomaszewski.net/Kreigh/Rockhounds/Rockhounds.shtml