Comments on: Did Mosquitoes Kill Off Dinosaurs?

By: phillip

phillip — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:31:15 +0000

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

By: Nadia

Nadia — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:20:46 +0000

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?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:07:05 +0000

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.

By: Aleki

Aleki — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:42:39 +0000

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.

By: reid

reid — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:38:11 +0000

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.

By: xopl

xopl — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:53:59 +0000

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?

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:05:37 +0000

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.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:07:31 +0000

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