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New "Last Dinosaur" Find Backs Asteroid Extinction

Posted by samzenpus on from the sky-is-falling dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new fossil discovery has suggested that dinosaurs were alive right up until the asteroid impact, and did not go extinct gradually due to climate change or changes in sea level, as previous theories have proposed."

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  1. Nonsense! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They were killed by all of the cavemen for food.

    At least that's what my science teacher told me.

    - A Student from Kansas

    1. Re:Nonsense! by ckblackm · · Score: 1, Funny

      Apparently you weren't paying attention. The Flying Spaghetti Monster put the bones out there for people to find, there weren't any dinosaurs as the world is only a few thousand years old!

    2. Re:Nonsense! by CajunArson · · Score: 4, Funny

      You religious wingnut! Everyone knows the Dinosaurs went extinct because climate change caused by the the Bush Tax Cuts and Big Oil!

              - A Student from San Francisco

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      AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
    3. Re:Nonsense! by dkleinsc · · Score: 1, Funny

      Aye, matey! Thar be the bones of dragons in the deeps. But which fell by His Noodlyness, and which by me blunderbuss?

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      I am officially gone from /. Long live http://www.soylentnews.com/
    4. Re:Nonsense! by DocHoncho · · Score: 2, Funny

      So THAT'S why the instructions for the Ark included two hands of lead shielding!

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      Celebrity worship is a poor substitute for Deity worship and costs more to boot.
  2. Re:No, it doesn't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're right.

    In fact, the truth is that the dinosaur extinction caused the asteroid impact event. Intelligent dinosaurs had maintained a force shield which protected the Earth, but after they died out (turned out that, unfortunately, the force shield was carcinogenic) and the shield went off-line, Earth was wide-open for a cataclysmic impact.

    --Alastair

  3. Re:Not dead yet! by Urkki · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alligators are not dinosaurs, they're Crurotarsi, which are well known to deeply hate dinosaurs for playing dirty tricks on 'em back in the Triassic-Jurassic transition. So for your own sake, don't even mention dinosaurs to your pet alligator, and especially don't start an argument about it! Only thing the alligator is going to like about the argument is taste of your ripped-off limbs!