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ArticleJournal of nutritional science2019

Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? Could cholecalciferol (vitamin D

D R Fraser

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Article in Journal of nutritional science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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D R FraserSydney School of Veterinary Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2560-0750

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Palaeontological deductions from the fossil remnants of extinct dinosaurs tell us much about their classification into species as well as about their physiological and behavioural characteristics. Geological evidence indicates that dinosaurs became extinct at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene eras, about 66 million years ago, at a time when there was worldwide environmental change resulting from the impact of a large celestial object with the Earth and/or from vast volcanic eruptions. However, apart from the presumption that climate change and interference with food supply contributed to their extinction, no biological mechanism has been suggested to explain why such a diverse range of terrestrial vertebrates ceased to exist. One of perhaps several contributing mechanisms comes by extrapolating from the physiology of the avian descendants of dinosaurs. This raises the possibility that cholecalciferol (vitamin D

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Extinction, BiologicalVitamin D DeficiencyAnimalsBirdsCholecalciferolClimate ChangeDinosaursEarth, PlanetEggsFood SupplyPaleontologyReproductionSunlightVolcanic EruptionsCholecalciferolDinosaur extinctionEmbryo mortalityFossilised eggsMya, million years agoSolar UVB radiation

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PMID30911383
PMCPMC6425225

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