'Bad luck' ensured that asteroid impact wiped out dinosaurs

[Roy Serohz]

Source: BBC News

28 July 2014 Last updated at 04:21
By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News



Dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid impact when they were at their most vulnerable, according to a new study.

Dr Steve Brusatte, of Edinburgh University, said sea level rises and volcanic activity had made many species more susceptible to extinction.

They might have survived if the asteroid had hit the Earth a few million years later or earlier, he said, calling it "colossal bad luck".

The assessment has been published in the journal, Biological Reviews.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28488044

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Those silly Brits: They refuse to acknowledge that Gawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwd killed the dinosaurs with His Might Asteroid because they were allowing gay marriage!

[ybbor]

1. I thought the Far Side had settled this already

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[Roy Serohz]

2. Larson was great

Don't know why he quit

[Frank Cannon]

3. He got tired of the pressure of having to be funny every day.

It's why a lot of great cartoonists quit, and the unfunny ones just continue to go on and on and on.

[Auggie]

4. After a while one runs out of ideas ...

best to go out on top rather than end in mediocrity. I respect guys like Larson, Watterman and Breathed who know when to quit.

[ybbor]

5. Maybe his bank was full?

I had most of his books, they were mostly "borrowed" and never returned or misplaced. I only have
a couple left.

[virgdem]

13. One of my favorites of Larson...

I have the poster and put it up in my cubicle at one of my jobs. My supervisor was not amused.

[Shadowflash]

6. another theory

[uppityperson]

11. I've never seen that one, funny.

[onehandle]

7. Stupid pea-brained lizards.

Should have called an expert...

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[cosmicone]

8. I thought god made them extinct because

They allowed females to choose how many eggs they could lay or not.

[Capt. Obvious]

9. This "theory" of an asteroid is foolish

dinosaurs didn't make it onto the ark

[PeoViejo]

10. Dinsasaurs all married their Gay partners

thus leaving no Breeders to carry-on.

[Hugabear]

12. Their tea partiers convinced everyone that asteroids didn't exist

[randome]

15. That's a good one.

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[Voice for Peace]

18. DUzy nt

[Blandocyte]

14. Is this LBN?

That extinction happened, what, like, a thousand years ago, right?

[stranger81]

16. Definitely late breaking.

76 million years late.

[freshwest]

20. +1

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. Everyone knows God created dinosaurs based on his cousin Ted's image:

[NickB79]

19. Bad luck for them, not so much for us

Without that asteroid, we'd just be fuzzy rats scampering among the leaves and grasses.