Comments on: Cancer ‘did not cause dinosaur extinction’

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:56:45 +0000

Janet Sumner from the Open University has an interesting theory based on flood lava:
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/738/

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:44:36 +0000

wow.

is there NOTHING we can’t blame on climate change?

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:39:24 +0000

Mike, first you’d have to reference some papers to show that those were actually credible theories at some point. And, no, “Regnier, M. 2007. Drunken ramblings at the pub. Personal communication” isn’t a suitable reference.

As to what killed the dinosaurs, the most likely scenarios are still (after many years of crazy theories) asteroid collision and climate change – mainly the first one, helped by the second one.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:53:03 +0000

This is all very well, but as with so much research, it doesn’t answer the initial question: just what did kill the dinosaurs? Can I publish a paper on how chocolate Rice Krispie cakes didn’t kill the dinosaurs, or how over-fishing of the North Sea didn’t wipe them out? Can I? Ooh, what if it did?

(Nice post, though H. Made me laugh)

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:06:18 +0000

They did during the National Anthem.

Allegedly.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:53:23 +0000

And nor did any dinosaur stand in the pose shown in the skeleton, with the tail dragging on the ground…