Comments on: Dinosaurs Died Agonizing Deaths

By: floyd

floyd — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:26:49 +0000

I heard that the ones that didn't get run over by SUVs, died from the fumes or worry over the environmental impact.
I saw a documentary where they were abused as slave labor for everything from stone quarry work to lawn mowing, but were eventually replaced by illegal immigrants and starved to death!
Or was that "The Flintstones"??

By: Kent G. Budge

Kent G. Budge — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:46:24 +0000

It's interesting to know something about how the fossilized dinosaurs died. However, one should keep in mind that fossils are exceedingly rare. Most dead animals quickly decay without leaving any trace. Those very few who die under circumstances allowing preservation are a thoroughly unrepresentative sample of the overall dinosaur population.

Did they die choking in volcanic fumes? Very plausibly. Does that mean there were lots of volcanoes back then? Not at all. Did they drown in a flash flood? Very plausibly. Was the whole world flooded back then? Not necessarily. And so on. Even a lack of thiamine might have been a local and rare phenomenon somehow connected with whatever preserved the remains.

By: Alex Knapp

Alex Knapp — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:19:16 +0000

Of course they died while suffocating. Everyone knows that the dinosaurs were wiped out by the Flood because they couldn't fit in Noah's Ark!

By: G.A.Phillips

G.A.Phillips — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:07:48 +0000

And the the 180 million year old T-Rex leg bone that they found not to long ago and had to break in half for transport that still had flesh in it and was said to have the same D.N.A type as a chicken must have been nice for roasting.

By: G.A.Phillips

G.A.Phillips — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:58:43 +0000

Yup, people killed them and ate them.

By: Richard Gardner

Richard Gardner — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:48:55 +0000

Volcanos can produce more than ash and lava; they often release deadly gases, to include Sulfur Dioxide, Chlorine and Fluorine (Hydrogen Fluoride). The Icelandic Laki volcanic fissure's eruption in 1783-84 produced 120 million tons of sulphur dioxide leading to widespread deaths across Europe, and abnormal weather worldwide.

By: Pirate's Cove

Pirate's Cove — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:00:12 +0000

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