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Some Large Dinosaurs Survived the K-T Extinction

Posted by kdawson on from the hid-under-a-rock dept.

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."

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  1. Cavemen? by SultanCemil · · Score: 5, Funny

    So does that mean skimpily clad cavewomen really *did* ride around on dinosaurs? mmmm...

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    1. Re:Cavemen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      not a lost valley, but the Great Valley, noob.

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      Littlefoot

    2. Re:Cavemen? by meyekul · · Score: 5, Funny

      The irony is as soon as they step out of the valley, they drop their eye glasses and shatter them on the rocks.

    3. Re:Cavemen? by BigBlueOx · · Score: 5, Funny

      The dinosaurs were all largeish - turkey-sized or bigger - with the exception of thos who seem to have evolved into birds, and may have been much smaller because of the nifty invention of feathers.

      Well, it seems from the latest I've read on these things that paleontologists are now a-thinkin that a lot of the big dinosaurs had feathers too. In fact one article I read said that it was quite possible that T-Rex himself looked "like a big chick".

      I remember that article because the image of a 60 foot high "chick" with fluffy baby-feathers coated with the rotting blood and entrails of its victims and flesh-caked teeth the size of stalactites is one that haunts my dreams to this day.

      Oh. You want cites? Ah.

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  2. Re:But of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, yo moma comes to mind

  3. Re:Still with us by RuBLed · · Score: 5, Funny

    MOZIRRAAA!!!

  4. Re:Obvious solution... by BabyDave · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Tyranno-saur-us, but did anyone ... [puts on shades] ... see them?"

    [The Who] Bwaaaaaaaaoooo ba ba! (etc)

  5. Re:Still with us by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, but there's a machine in the sever room capable of Tri-teraflops.

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  6. Re:Other findings. by Shrike82 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm confused. Is that larger or smaller than a metric fuckload of evidence?

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  7. Re:I keep dinosaurs in my garden by maxume · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it make them angry?

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  8. Re:Quantum Mechanics... by Qzukk · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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