An Asteroid didn't kill the dinosaurs maybe swine flu did.

[Victoria Raverna]

http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... hsci-yahoo" target="_blank

So if the Chicxulub asteroid didn't kill the dinosaurs, what did? Paleontologists have advanced all manner of other theories over the years, including the appearance of land bridges that allowed different species to migrate to different continents, bringing with them diseases to which native species hadn't developed immunity.

[The Meal]

I saw a recent article hypothesizing volcanic activity roughly 300,000 years after Chicxulub.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... refer=home" target="_blank

[The Meal]

Maybe Chicxulub was just a distraction.

[SpaceLord]

Baby, can you dig your allosaurus? He's a righteous allosaurus.

[Smoove_B]

Wait...I thought it was sexually transmitted diseases that killed the dinosaurs. I can't keep up.

/did not catch on a toilet

[Eightball]

In that Time article, there's the following link: (See pictures of animals in space.)

Uh. Okay?

[The Meal]

In that Time article, there's the following link: (See pictures of animals in space.)

Uh. Okay?

Awesome find! The Hannibal Lecter monkey is fantastic (as is the rocket sled chimp).

[Eightball]

In that Time article, there's the following link: (See pictures of animals in space.)

Uh. Okay?

Awesome find! The Hannibal Lecter monkey is fantastic (as is the rocket sled chimp).

Yeah, I mean it's awesome and all...but what the hell is it doing in that particular article?

And you're right, that monkey is awesome. I didn't make the Lector connection until your post, and now I'm just sitting in my office giggling like a school girl at the thought of it.

[LawBeefaroni]

Yeah, I mean it's awesome and all...but what the hell is it doing in that particular article?

And 10 of 11:
Animals in Space - John Glenn.



I'm guessing they take every opportunity to pimp their slideshows and dead dinosaurs and space rock is enough of a connection for an "Animals in Space" plug.

It works, apparently.

[Bakhtosh]

Could have been The Flood...

[Jeff V]

Could have been The Flood...

What flood? Dinosaurs lived all ecosystems, not just flood plains. A flood is a local catastrophe, not a global one.

[BooTx]

I saw a special on Discovery or The History Channel a couple months ago that talked about this. It's really interesting stuff. I don't think any single one of the theories they presented could really account for the fact that a huge number of species - both land and marine - were wiped out, while others survived.

[WPD]

In that Time article, there's the following link: (See pictures of animals in space.)

Uh. Okay?

Awesome find! The Hannibal Lecter monkey is fantastic (as is the rocket sled chimp).

Yeah, I mean it's awesome and all...but what the hell is it doing in that particular article?

And you're right, that monkey is awesome. I didn't make the Lector connection until your post, and now I'm just sitting in my office giggling like a school girl at the thought of it.

Hellllloooooooo avatar!

[dbt1949]

and god made dinosaurs and saw that they were bad and HE said "I shall make a mass distinction of them. And HE did.

[Jeff V]

and god made dinosaurs and saw that they were bad and HE said "I shall make a mass distinction of them. And HE did.

I like this. It implies god made dinosaurs in his image, which sheds a new light on Tyrannosaurus Rex (terrible lizard) and explains millions of years of bad things that have happened since. Too bad there wasn't a Piussaurus Rex to reign supreme instead.

[LawBeefaroni]

I like this. It implies god made dinosaurs in his image, which sheds a new light on Tyrannosaurus Rex (terrible lizard) and explains millions of years of bad things that have happened since.

Dinosaur is "terrible lizard" (or at least the greek root is). Tyrannosaurus Rex is something like "tyrannical lizard king," which may be more appropriate for your point anyway.

[Sandpuppy]

[The Meal]

So it's to be a debate then, is it?

The extinction of the dinosaurs has often been traced to a giant space rock impact on the Earth 65 million years ago. But now a scientist is saying experts have blamed the wrong impact. The new thinking was met with sharp criticism from other researchers, however.

[Isgrimnur]

I saw a recent article hypothesizing volcanic activity roughly 300,000 years after Chicxulub.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... refer=home" target="_blank

The Atlantic: The Nastiest Feud in Science

[morlac]

Pretty sure this author figured it out:

[Jaymann]

Pretty sure this author figured it out:

The Big Blank?

[coopasonic]

Pretty sure this author figured it out:

The Big Blank?

Amazon links are... problematic for some of us.

Code: Select all

https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Stripper-Boned-Behind-T-Rex-ebook/dp/B01J2BS3WY

[morlac]

It was bad joke to begin with....

[Bad Demographic]