Ah c’mon! The Dinosaurs didn’t die from an asteroid!
If Scientists (sigh) are right, an impact with Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, blackened the sky, choked the air, brought massive tsunami and raging wildfires.
While the dinosaurs were busy dying an early relative of the Alligator was, I assume, sat in a 3ft-deep pond just a few hundred miles away from the impact zone saying to himself “What was that noise?”
What I don’t understand is, why did they survive? When the earliest relatives to the Alligator appeared 300 million years ago (according to Scientists - sigh), what made them the reptile too tough to kill off?
Perhaps all the retirees who move down to Florida know something the rest of the world does not? Maybe Florida has some kind of invincibility field?
I’m a logical guy, but I have trouble believing theories when some contrary evidence continues to tap me on the shoulder. There are Alligators in China and America, so I don’t understand how the ones in America got through the extinction? What were they eating? Of course China might have been a safe distance from ground-zero, perhaps the Alligator high-council (a pre-historic NATO) shipped Alligator’s back to America once the dust began to settle?
I’m just having a laugh, really. But I can’t help thinking this kind of stuff - I have to amuse myself somehow. 
Want to know my theory? A plant disease. That killed the Herbivores (plant-eaters), so the Omnivores (mixed-diet) and Carnivores (meat-eaters) had nothing to eat. This is the only circumstance on which I can think that some land animals survived along with most water/sea creatures.
Tags: Dinosaurs, Extinction, Funny, Science, Scientific Theory
September 7th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Maybe some of the dinosaurs died from the asteroid…..and then because of atmospheric change the plants started dieing( maybe from disease caused by the yicky stuff throw into the atomosphere by the asteroid) then the plant eaters died (no more salad to eat) and then the meat eaters died (all the chickens were gone)….see it was the asteroid.
this is just my theory of course.
September 7th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Maybe they discovered Space Travel and decided to go find somewhere to be alone without those pesky mammals…
September 8th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Scientists have good evidence for the asteroid/comet impact…what and where is your evidence for the plant disease? What type of disease(s) would target and infect so many different species of plant?
September 8th, 2007 at 10:58 am
(beware: Awkwar Macaronic English) Maybe dinos were too big to survive. Also, the impact could have modified the earth rotation speed, then the gravity became higher affecting everithig was living in massive size.
Probably this is going to happen today in Italy, while our politicdinos are goin to die beacuse of the biggest event after the Messico impact: the Beppe Grillo V-DAY…
September 8th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Mmmmm… If it wasn’t an asteriod, then what? You are a logical guy, explain how. Give a theory or something instead of trying to prove another wrong. We need to have some sort of explenation!
September 8th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Indeed, I mean - everyone knows that an asteroid would either kill-off no species, or it would kill off all life. To say that an asteroid impact would happen to in kill-off some species and not others is ridiculous. (Yes, that’s sarcasm.)
September 8th, 2007 at 10:59 am
I’m doubting the space travel theory, dinosaurs lack the dexterity to fly spacecraft….I should tell you about the alien I saw walking down the sidewalk in 1969 when I lived in Alaska.
September 8th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Large dinos may have had oxygen requirements that the changing atmosphere ultimately couldn’t maintain, while reptiles like gators still hadn’t gone down that metabolic path.
However, not all the dinos died: the ancestors of the birds survived.
September 9th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Mark: What kind of extinction is selective of species?
Bepi: Yes I remember reading about a study that said warmer atmosphere = larger growth, especially in reptiles. I guess if an asteroid launched huge atmospheric changes due to dust, etc, then it’s possible.
stagnantidealist: Mmmmm… Maybe you should try reading the post again, because then maybe you’ll notice that I did do exactly what you said I didn’t. Maybe if you’re having a problem seeing things written infront of you, looking for evidence might not be for you. I’d try skydiving.
tinyfrog: You’re forgetting about Florida’s protective shield. That’s why some species survive extinction - I guess.
marsha loftis: I dunno… You work on airlines right? Some of those pilots look old enough to have been around when the asteroid hit. Maybe we should ask them what happened? hehe
Bad: Yeah I know, I’m having a laugh really. I just do find it strange that there is seemingly “selective” extinction going on and I don’t see anything to explain that. I think the asteroid impact is most likely, but there are flaws.