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.
If birds evolved from dinosaurs then it is possible that some birds did exist alongside dinosaurs. However, they would have been more dinosaur then bird. It is suspected and the majority of scientist believe that dinosaurs went extinct by a cataclismic event that occured 65 million years ago. Not only did dinosaurs become extinct but vast amounts of other animals also succumbed to the cataclismic event.