Did We Ever Agree on What Killed the Dinosaurs??

Asteroid impact.

Kids love dinosaurs; one of the mysteries of the world.

T Rex.
Tyrannosaurus Rex, a well known and favorite carnivorous dinosaur.

A mound covered in dinosaur bones in north east China's Shandong province, the world's largest grouping of fossils, including over three thousand dinosaur footprints.

Fossilized bones of a newly discovered species of carnivorous dinosaur, found in China,
an ancestor of present day birds. Below is a scientists' conception of the fleshed out dinosaur.
A recently discovered carnivorous dinosaur

Scientists Have finally concluded once and for all that an asteroid hit killed the dinosaurs worldwide. An all-star panel of researchers says it was the impact of a giant asteroid in Mexico that killed off the dinosaurs and left us with only a few bones and fossils with which to reconstruct the past.
Think you've heard that before? You're right. It's an age old debate. In 1980, Louis Alvarez and his son Walter published a paper blaming the dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago on an asteroid crashing into the earth with the force of a billion atomic bombs. The probable crater was later found at Chicxulub, Mexico, and the idea gained wide scientific acceptance.
In the past few years, however, suggestions were made that the demise of the dinosaurs might have been caused by the eruption of volcanoes, known as the Deccan Traps, in India, or multiple asteroid impacts.

These conflicting theories prompted 41 geologists, paleontologists and other researchers to come together to review the data. Their conclusion, published in Friday's edition of the journal Science: A giant asteroid struck Chicxulub twenty times faster than a speeding bullet, exploding into a deadly mix of hot rock and gas that blasted a cloud of dust, gas, smoke and debris around the world, changing the environment irrevocably. These circumstances led to the tragic end of the dinosaurs.
The argument for multiple impacts isn't supported by worldwide data, and the Deccan eruptions actually began 400,000 years before the end of the dinosaurs,according to Kirk Johnson of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Let's hope this old debate is finally put to rest. It stands to reason that it was one cataclysmic event that ended a great era and gave birth to another from which we rose to rule the world.