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 gradual decline of the dinosaurs and pterosaurs presumably came before the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid and the global mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period, new research suggests. Studies also indicate that bird species spread and diversified at the same time the dinosaurs disappeared.