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.
The ultimate cause may have been one of these theories or a combination of several. One widely accepted theory of dinosaur extinction is that of great climatic changes which the dinosaurs were not able to adapt to. There are many possible causes to these changes.ather than these gradual and natural developments, several theories argue that a tremendous world-wide cataclysmic event caused the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs. Many of these theories include some event that caused great changes to the atmosphere and environment that was impossible to adopt to.