Explore Milwaukee County (Click on picture) Milwaukee County, created in 1834 as a territorial county, is derived from a Native American word Mahnawaukee-Seepe meaning gathering place by the river.. Located in southeast Wisconsin, the county seat is Milwaukee.
The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, or the K-T event, is the name given to the die-off of the dinosaurs and other species that took place some 65.5 million years ago. For many years, paleontologists believed this event was caused by climate and geological changes that interrupted the dinosaursâ food supply.
Contrary to popular belief, the dinosaurs did not suddenly go extinct. It was a slow and agonizing death that lasted for hundreds of thousands of years. Herbivores overconsumed the plant life that produced oxygen, vital to life. Diseases spread like wildfire, the land was a barren wasteland. The meteor was a bullet to the head to the dinosaurs.