Dinosaur Demise Decisively Decided?

[LOTRFan]

Thanks in part to Sideshow my interest in dinosaurs has been peaked again (and my sons are growing up dino-fiends) so THIS ARTICLE was a good read.

 

[Shropt]

I'll be damned, so they were killed by

Spoiler

an asteroid.

I always figured that.

 

[The Ween]

Thanks in part to Sideshow my interest in dinosaurs has been peaked again (and my sons are growing up dino-fiends) so THIS ARTICLE was a good read.

I didn't read the whole article so maybe this question was answered. I was always told that dinosaurs, or some of them, evolved into birds. How could that have happened if they were all wiped out by an asteroid?

 

[hoodonit00]

I always figured it was because the cavemen ate them all.

 

[xr6.turbo]

I always figured it was because the cavemen ate them all.

Dinosaurs and man are separated by 60 million years(didn't you see jurassic park)

 

[Superman]

Nostradamus was right

 

[Devil_666]

Dinosaurs and man are separated by 60 million years(didn't you see jurassic park)

Maybe he read the Bible.

 

[The Craw]

Dinosaurs and man are separated by 60 million years(didn't you see jurassic park)

if that's true, then what are those bronto ribs made of in the opening sequence of The Flintstones when they go out to the drive in restaurant?

 

[Voorhees27]

if that's true, then what are those bronto ribs made of in the opening sequence of The Flintstones when they go out to the drive in restaurant?

 

[Dusty]

Thanks in part to Sideshow my interest in dinosaurs has been peaked again (and my sons are growing up dino-fiends) so THIS ARTICLE was a good read.

Nice alliteration! I've always been a fan ever since I tried to compose a newsletter blurb about Dr. Doom using all 'd' words years ago Mind if I steal your title and post this in the Dinosauria news section on the Sideshow site?

 

[LOTRFan]

Nice alliteration! I've always been a fan ever since I tried to compose a newsletter blurb about Dr. Doom using all 'd' words years ago Mind if I steal your title and post this in the Dinosauria news section on the Sideshow site?

Of course Dusty.

 

[agen_kolar]

I don't think ALL dinosaurs were wiped out, otherwise we would not have so many birds. Birds arose during the time of the dinosaurs, the earliest and most primitive species known being Archaeopteryx. The majority of the dinosaur population, particularly the largest species, would most definitely have become extinct post-asteroid collision. Archaeopteryx would've become extinct then, but most likely before - perhaps by evolving into other species. The smaller species of dinosaurs that require less food and less space to roam would have (and I think did) survive and evolved into the birds that we see today.

Fun fact: Did you know that birds alive today have been found in fossil records dating back several million years? It is hypothesized that many of the species we see today haven't changed in millions of years.

 

[Devil_666]

"We now have great confidence that an asteroid was the cause of the KT extinction. This triggered large-scale fires, earthquakes measuring more than 10 on the Richter scale, and continental landslides, which created tsunamis,"

Translation: We STILL don't know for sure, and never will.