Did Mosquitoes Kill Off Dinosaurs?

1. Josh
   January 7th, 2008 at 3:07 pm

   I see dinosaurs everyday. They mostly fly above me but I eat them regularly.

2. Pudifoot
   January 7th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

   If you watched Kent Hovind's videos you would know that dinosaurs were just big lizards that lived in the garden of eden with Adam and Eve. Most of the dinosaurs died in the great flood about 4,000 years ago.

   Isn't that a much simpler explanation than "asteroids" or "diseases". sheesh.

3. xopl
   January 7th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

   Is there actually any proof that dinosaurs were wiped out very suddenly? Hundreds of thousands to millions of years to kill off the dinosaurs sure doesn't sound like a mass extinction event to me.

   Turtles, alligators, crocodiles... they all survived from the era of the dinosaurs.

   But the huge dinosaurs we all know and love. They didn't make it.

   Why would mosquitos kill off triceratops and t-rex but not the crocodilians or turtles?

4. reid
   January 7th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

   uhhhh....
   "There seems to be a lot of problems with that theory,"
   no, there really aren't. it's a very reasonable and probably theory.
   you're citing the daily mail, which is a tabloid with no journalistic integrity.
   seriously, this is crap.

5. Aleki
   January 7th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

   Actually the article points out that it took a long time to wipe out the dinosaurs. The fact that it took so long is the main problem of the asteroid theory. If you actually read the article you might have picked that up.

   And reid the daily mail wasn't the only place the article was carried. And you're right the asteroid theory is reasonable, but it still has holes in it.

   But since you were there you're probably a better judge to say what's crap than the scientists involved.

6. Alex
   January 8th, 2008 at 1:07 am

   In the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary 65 million years ago, there was sudden and massive extinction. This didn't just affect dinosaurs: marine animal and plant life were both affected.

   On the other hand, extinction is a process, and although asteroid played a big role, other factors like diseases, lack of food, or climate change might have been the ones that finished off the big guys.

7. Nadia
   January 16th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

   I agree. I don't see how dinosaurs could be killed off by mosquitos but there is so many animals still alive like crocodiles that haven't been affected?

8. phillip
   March 4th, 2008 at 8:31 am

   I think that dinosaurs were killed because of a widespread disease that could nt be stopped by their immune systems.

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