The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT   Volcanic
activity did for the dinosaurs  Asteroid simply the last straw,
study suggests  Email delivery: Hate phishing emails? You'll
love DMARC  The dinosaurs might have been wiped out by a huge
volcanic eruption, a new study suggests, rather than an asteroid
strike 65m years ago, as is widely believed.  The possibility of
a volcanic catastrophe being behind the fall of the great
reptiles has long been mooted: the Deccan Traps in India are
evidence of a series of huge volcanic eruptions that have been
dated to around 65m years ago, the same time as the dinosaurs
vanished from the Earth.  The eruptions would have sent massive
quantities of ash and sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere,
enough to have a significant impact on the climate, and possibly
doom the terrible lizards.  However, until now, the eruptions
were thought to have taken place sporadically, over the course
of several million years. This would have given the environment
and climate plenty of time to