Re: Extinction

[Larry Dunn <majestic_cheese@yahoo.com>]

--- TRUETT GARNER <DINOBOY@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
 
> Actually, I suspect the combination was a major
> factor.  Also some of the 
> Late Pleistocene extinction in North America appear
> to have *preceded* 
> human arrival here, at least based on the dating of
> finds in the La Brea 
> Pits here in LA.  

This (a combination of factors) seems to be the case
with respect to the extinction of _Megalania prisca_,
the very large Meganesian monitor lizard.  Apparently
Australian paleontologists believe that climate
changes as well as human invasion caused the species
to terminate.  

We are awfully homocentric, though, and generally rush
to claim responsibility for everything, good and bad.

For instance, my own pet theory is that humans from
the future redirected the
meteor/meteorite/meteoroid/bolide/comet/space rock
thingie that killed the dinosaurs.  I am a
compromiser, though, so I believe that it was directed
specifically by these future-humans to break up like a
huge MIRV and attack their non-stealthy eggs.  There's
an image for you.  To support this theory: There is,
in fact, a thin, yummy "omlette layer" in the K-T
boundary. 

=====
Larry

"I've been ionized, but I'm OK now."

http://members.tripod.com/~megalania/index.html

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