Re: Diseases & K/T Extinction

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-01-24 23:35:54 EST, J.McKee@gns.cri.nz (McKee, Joseph)
writes:

>I agree with Nick Longrich, diseases did not cause the extinction of the
>dinosaurs at the K/T bouandary. The NZ Dinosaurs were in isolation from the
>rest of Gondwanaland sometime between 85 - 90 million years to the end of
the
>Cretaceous, so a disease theory would not hold water!!! We also have some of
>the highest iridium levels in our K/T sites, including Woodside Creek, one
of
>the
>three original sites of the iridium discovery.

Details, details.