so what REALLY happened to the dinosaurs...

Friday, June 02, 2006

So just today they found a crater in Antartica the size of Ohio that they say NOW is the cause of the extinctionof the dinosaurs.

The multiple theories of mass extinction just don't add up. Whichever theory one believes killed off the dinos- astroids, climate changes, volcanos... all grandious, would have destroyed ALL life on the planet. Why did dinosaurs die out while other animals such as frogs, which we know are environmentally sensitive survive? I have a simple explanation.

My expertise on this subject goes no further than a fourth-grade science class sitting at my desk in courderoy pants with tuna fish sandwich on my breath. We discussed a photo in our Biology textbooks of a rare find showing dinosaur eggs fossilized in their nest on the ground which had been cracked open, not hatched. Dinosaurs, apparently left their eggs untended to hunt and graze. The picture looked something like this:





At one time life on this planet was cold-blooded. Now the world is dominated by warm fuzzy mammals. But for a time mammals and dinos lived side by side, or rather underfoot during the Mesozoic Era. The mammals were quick little creatures like weasels. Egg sucking weasels to be more exact. They bred in large litters and multiplied quickly. They slayed the dragons by cracking open their untended eggs laying on the ground, sucking out the raw goodness. The food supply was practically limitless- the number one factor in population explosion. And things eventually got quieter above ground. Imagine- scurrying about darting underground with all those horrible creatures eating each other up and causing havoc. The ground stops thundering just long enough to venture out for a bite to eat and everywhere you look are 'Caveman' sized eggs larger than the tin of scramble at the Circus-Circus buffet. Good times!

Now the fact that sealed the deal in my dimly-lit brain was that some cold-blooded relatives of the dinosaurs survive to this day as reptiles and birds. Turtles, lizards, aligators, frogs, snakes, birds etc. ALL hide their eggs from predators. Today's cold-blooded creatures went to hiding their defenseless unborn eggs when the things started disappearing, unlike the dinosaurs.

Isn't it strange that reptiles all have this one thing in common and that converged with the explosive rise of the mammals? I think so, and I think Darwin would approve as well. Weasels.
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