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Do Honeybees Defy Dinosaur Extinction Theories?
neutron_p writes "The humble tropical honeybee may challenge the idea that a post-asteroid impact "nuclear winter" was a big player in the decimation of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Somehow the tropical honeybee, Cretotrigona prisca, survived the end-Cretaceous extinction event, despite what many researchers believe was a years-long period of darkness and frigid temperatures caused by sunlight-blocking dust and smoke from the asteroid impact at Chicxulub."
Read that as "from the asteroid impact at Chix Club?" For a second I thought a hot nightclub got wiped off the planet and my chances of procreating in this world went down a notch or something...*phew*
...in bed
here in america, we pronounce it "nuculer", you insensitive clod.
The honeybees only survived because the aliens took them off the planet during the extinction, then brought them back about the time they built the pyramids.
Honey bees are do-bees. Dinosaurs are don't-bees.
I love bees.. Not only do they survive nuclear winter, but unlike cockroaches they wear cool rugby shirts. Sting on, my buzzy cousins! Sting on!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Okay already, I'll go buy Halo 2...
Uh, this is about Halo, right?
My favorite bees are the ones's from Margaret's Honey in Napa, CA. I bought a case of them last month and they keep transmitting me secret messages from space, I think. I tried to decode their message, and I think it's:
PURC HASEHA LOTWOFO RT HEXBO X
I think the language is Sumerian, possibly. No idea, help me out here.
I'll get to the bottom of this somehow...
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
The bees at some point turned into swarms of ravenous dinosaur eating killers and wiped the poor innocent helpless dinos out. There can be no other explanation.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Do Honey Bees Defy Dinasour Extinction Theories?
Honey bees mostly don't care. Dinasour extinction theories are not getting a lot of buzz with them.
It's hard to tell from your post - is it possible that you are actually a flower?
There are no karma whores, only moderation johns
Obviously these so-called "scientists" have never caught bees in a jar then stuck them in the freezer.
Man are they pissed when they thaw.
Ice age. Big deal.
From the article:
Late Cretaceous tropical honeybees preserved in amber are almost identical to their modern relatives, she says. If no modern tropical honeybee could have survived years in the dark and cold without the flowering plants they lived off of, Kozisek reasoned, something must be amiss with the nuclear winter theory.
The argument is not necessarily that the event directly killed honeybees (although the article also talks about honeybees' limited tolerance for cold temperatures). Basically, the idea is that flowering plants could not have survived through the event. Without flowering plants, bees would no longer have a purpose to their existence and would be plunged into a state of desperate ennui. No, wait, I mean they would starve. Yeah, starve.
No, they were on Noah'a ark. End of story. ;)
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> despite what many researchers believe was a years-long period of darkness and frigid temperatures
Please don't make me relive my teenage years...
Honeycomb's big? Yeah yeah yeah
It's not small? No no no
Two major flaws in theory:
1) AC electricity hadn't been discovered then.
2) The refrigerator wasn't invented until the 1800s.
AT&ROFLMAO
Some crazy aussie in shorts wrestling them on TV, what? Crikey!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Actually, they usually selected the most pedantic 10% of the group.
You can never tell with bees.
sulli
RTFJ.
European or tropical?
But more important, what is their unladen airspeed velocity. And do you think tropical bees could carry a coconut to England? Or European bees?
hive intelligence.
use google.
Why? We're already using Slashdot, that should tell us everything we need to know about hive intelligence.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Hey - has anyone thought of asking the bees whether the light stays on?
AT&ROFLMAO