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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."
The decimation of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago? Pardon me, but way more than one in ten dinosaur species died off in that time frame.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
to summon Bevets to this thread!
Funny, I always took it for granted that bees would be the ones that killed everything that the meteor/dust/blackout/blizzard didn't kill.
I remember a skit back around '99 (or '98) that were reporting the events and public reaction to the meteor (or was it the sun being blacked out?).
At the end they said "After these comercials, stay tuned for Blizzard '99. Followed by 'Artic Bee Swarm '99".
Can anyone other than me remeber this?
No animal has sex with the goal of getting the female pregnant, they all do it just because it feels good. That doesn't mean it's not about procreation, it just means they don't know it is. For humans you might say that many don't want to know it is. Meanwhile the males keep unconsciously selecting the females for the physical properties consistent with being able to raise healthy offspring.