What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?

[moy1moy1]

You are thinking of this from the point of view of you trying to kill an animal. In matters of survival, the smaller, the better. Look at bacteria ... they've were around millions of years before dinosaurs and if modern dinosaur evolutionary theory is to be believed, birds are still here, and they descended from smaller dinosaurs, not T-Rex. Elephants today are more endangered than rats. Blue whales are scarcer than cockroaches. Your logic does not hold up.

very well said............

hehe just to add humor, if u look closely at the chicken, imagining it w/ out feathers, it looks like a mini velociraptor or a compsonaugthus

[HsaLs]

You are thinking of this from the point of view of you trying to kill an animal. In matters of survival, the smaller, the better. Look at bacteria ... they've were around millions of years before dinosaurs and if modern dinosaur evolutionary theory is to be believed, birds are still here, and they descended from smaller dinosaurs, not T-Rex. Elephants today are more endangered than rats. Blue whales are scarcer than cockroaches. Your logic does not hold up.

wow.. good point. haha...

[rudjard]

well i just thought i could share this reply from one of the viewer on that post from yahoo. this is not my opinion and i don't wnt to start a great debate on the issue.

from Kathy - Here we go again. This is science at its worst. Because the dinosaurs were big (well, most of them), everyone has this fixation that it took something big to wipe them out. But if that was the case, where are the fossils? The record should be littered with fossils immediately above the K-T boundary if an asteroid caused their demise. But it's not. It's like seeing a body laying in the road, then 10 miles up you see a car crashed into a tree and say, "Oh, that must have been what killed that poor chap back there."

For the asteroid impact theory to be correct, one would have to assume that every dinosaur on the planet was incinerated instantly. But we know that wouldn't have been the case. Those in the immediate vicinity would have definitely had a bad day, but dinosaurs on the other side of the planet would have died a slow death from starvation, just like we would if it happened today. Everyone says the lucky ones would be at ground zero. But obviously no dinosaurs died a slow death after the impact, or their fossils would be everywhere.

The fossil record does show a steady decline in the number and variety of dinosaurs in the years preceding the K-T impact. Climate change and a collapse of the food chain are much more likely, although less dramatic, culprits for extinction than a rock, no matter how big, from outer space.

Besides, the dinosaurs closest relatives, birds, managed to come through the cataclysm with their feathers on. And crocodiles and frogs and a host of other creatures who would have been most vulnerable after the asteroid impact must have packed their own lunch, because they managed to survive long enough to see the movie 2012 with the rest of us. And why wouldn't the smallest dinosaurs, who required much less in terms of habitable land and vegetation, have survived even if the biggest dinosurs were unable to cope? The only reasonable answer is that even the smallest of dinosaurs were already extinct or going extinct well prior to the impact.

No, sorry. The dinosaurs had already gotten out of the car before it hit the tree. I think the Far Side cartoon that shows the dinosaurs smoking is a much more likely cause of their extinction than an asteroid. Either that, or it was Wilma's cooking. How many brontoburgers did Fred really eat?


she makes sence to me but that just me...

[HsaLs]

@rudjard

I've read about that.. I read the whole article you know.. hehe. but there are also many replies to her post.. try to read it. there "counter" posts also makes sense.......

[rudjard]

@ Hsals: yep read it as well. those makes sense too from a layman's POV like me.

the scientists has spoken on the issue and so as Nat'l Geo as i've seen it way back b4 this issue was published. no plans to debate whether it's really plausible or not...

[BuyerUgBisanUnsa]

wa mo kabaw ngano wala nai dinasours
nag tag an tag an rana ang mga scientest

[superkebot]

it was GOD that killed the Dinosaurs.

just kidding.

It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs - Yahoo! News

i find this funny... whats official? they die of an asteroid? well one thing is sure, they die because they could not cope up.

Reasons why dinosaurs died:

1. Asteroid (heavily favored).
2. Massive volcanic activity.
3. Flood
4. Disease

But whatever it is... we cannot call it official. Some new theories will come out and challenge this lies...

[Leartes]

can i laugh now?

[chad_tukes]

i find this funny... whats official? they die of an asteroid? well one thing is sure, they die because they could not cope up.

Reasons why dinosaurs died:

1. Asteroid (heavily favored).
2. Massive volcanic activity.
3. Flood
4. Disease

But whatever it is... we cannot call it official. Some new theories will come out and challenge this lies...

you keep getting banned but you keep coming back. it's official --- your head is harder than a rock.

[DonMarc]

lol..hehe. as what someone posted there: "in science, nothing is really official"