Insect Attack May Have Finished Off Dinosaurs

Science Daily ^ | 1-3-2008 | Oregon State University.

[doc1019]

Just “SWAG” … Scientific Wild Ass Guess. ;-)

[dr_who_2]

It was a plague of locusts.

[max americana]

true.

These idiotic scientists are just modern day “guessers”.

Betcha the “al gore brigade” will say it wasn’t the insects BUT GLOBAL WARMING THAT KILLED THE DINOS.

[sionnsar]

Ever notice how almost all “science” articles include the word “may” in them?

Well, it is speculation, isn't it? Don't you recall being taught in school that one step of the scientific method is "hypothesis"?

[dr_who_2]

You’re my hero!

[InvisibleChurch]

I think today’s scientists have included “funding” and “hype” in the scientific method. But, yes, you are right.

[LasVegasMac]

An important contributor to the demise of the dinosaurs, experts say, could have been the rise and evolution of insects,

Hey now!

How dare you doubt the "experts"!!!!

The global cooling....warming....change....'sperts have convinced me!

They have rock solid science behind their findings.....

Right?

[atomic conspiracy]

“Insect Attack May Have Finished Off Dinosaurs”

Something like bloggers and the MSM.

[sionnsar]

Well yes, but this seemed fairly reasonable.

Great cartoon (I won't say "comic" because it's not very funny) on your profile page, BTW. That is a keeper -- if only as a reminder to us all.

[Duke Nukum]

It wasn’t the Dileks, it was the Cybermen. They were going to try and destroy the earth by crashing a spaceship into it but the Doctor sent it back in time and it ended up being the cause of the dinosaur extinction, as well as the extinction of Aderick.

[Psycho_Bunny]

That’s how knowledge comes to be.

[gitmo]

So what caused the marine dinosaurs to die out? Marine insects are almost non-existent.

[dr_who_2]

You mean Daleks. And no, it wasn’t them. It was smoking that did it.

[Snickering Hound]

[hellbender]

Ticks are not insects. They are arachnids. Anyway, insects were around long before dinosaurs. Certainly in the long history of dinosaurs, insects wouldn't have waited until the K-T boundary to evolve forms which sucked dinosaur blood. Furthermore, disease-causing parasites which kill all their hosts outright don't survive very long themselves. Virtually all higher animals have parasites, yet they survive. Just finding evidence that dinos had parasites doesn't really prove anything.

And for heaven's sake, don't let anyone clone something from the blood in that tick in the amber.

[valkyry1]

By that, then knowledge becomes temporal, truth is eternal.

[Calpernia]

GGG?

[WalterSkinner]

..GREAT Rangers Show tonight--the best yet

DH is upbeat and the NH and FL people are too--we ain't done yet...

[Calpernia]

My kids had a project for school and I missed it live. Will catch it on demand tomorrow.

Hunter's Rangers On Demand!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Re “Don’t let anyone clone something from the blood in that tick in the amber”.

Sorry, too late. Coming to a theater near you - Juraissic Park, XX - The Rise of the Ticks”

This article also gives new meaning to the phrases:

“Don’t tick me off” and

“Don’t bug me”

Mosasaurs rule!