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Some Large Dinosaurs Survived the K-T Extinction
mmmscience sends along coverage from the Examiner on evidence that some dinosaurs survived the extinction event(s) at the end of the Cretaceous period. Here is the original journal article. "A US paleontologist is challenging one of the field's greatest theories: the mass extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period. Jim Fassett, a paleontologist who holds an emeritus position at the US Geological Survey, recently published a paper in Palaeontologia Electronica with evidence that points to a pocket of dinosaurs that somehow survived in remote parts New Mexico and Colorado for up to half a million years past the end of the Cretaceous period. If this theory holds up, these dinosaurs would be the only ones that made it to the Paleocene Age."
So does that mean skimpily clad cavewomen really *did* ride around on dinosaurs? mmmm...
Cemil.
They are still with us, working for some IT departments. Have you never seen an IEsixosaurus?
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Well, yo moma comes to mind
Everyone who reads Dilbert already knows this. They're hiding behind the couch.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
I mean geez people haven't you been keeping up with the latest issues of Creationism Quarterly!
This stuff is "Peer-reviewed by degreed scientists" it says so right on the website!
It has "Scholarly articles representing the major scientific disciplines" scientific disciplines like: biology, chemistry, theology, creationism! Duh!
"Emphasis on scientific evidence supporting: intelligent design, a recent creation, and a catastrophic worldwide flood"!
http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq.html /sarcasmbrainmelting
"Tyranno-saur-us, but did anyone ... [puts on shades] ... see them?"
[The Who] Bwaaaaaaaaoooo ba ba! (etc)
I'm confused. Is that larger or smaller than a metric fuckload of evidence?
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in the time it takes to post this comment another 2 "Cave chicks go Rex riding" websites will have been created.
I think you mean "2 Girls 1 Rex"
Does it make them angry?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
it'll probably emerge that quantum mechanics is behind the survival of these select few dinosaurs.
Quantum Mechanics can't save the dinosaurs. For a job this big, we need String Theory.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
well, "hug in a very special way..." sounds much better than "What didn't get shot into mommy's face became you" or "You are what didn't leak out"
Or in your case, "Your daddy was the one who could afford mommy for the whole night"
Here is the theory,
Scientists in the 1980's Wondered why no Dinosaurs after 65 MYA, so they found the K-T event impact crater and assumed it was the event that killed off all of the Dinosaurs.
So later in 2040's when we invent Time Travel, people of course want to go back and see the dinosaurs, so they all go back to the day before the K-T impact and watch the dinosaurs and they figure, hey since they will be relatively extinct tomorrow then why not shoot them and take a few trophy's back with them, plus they are good eatin'....
So by the next day when the Asteroid impacts the Earth most all of the dinosaurs have been hunted to extinction in one day from all of those time travelers going back to the same day before the Asteroid. A few pockets of Dinosaurs Survived the massive hunt because the time travel machines don't work quite right in some areas of on the earth due to magnetite deposits in certain areas. Those few dinos that survived the day before massive hunt and the Asteroid impact didn't have enough genetic diversity to survive and thus died off a little after 65 MYA.
So we killed off the Dinosaurs to make true the extinction we have always had in our fossil record.
The good news is that besides hunting they took some live Dinosaurs forward to the 2040's and they are being bred to replace chicken which have gone extinct due to the avian flu.
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