Re: Extinction due to "blue balls"

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Garrison Hilliard reported:
> 
> Lack of females may have done in dinosaurs
> Tue Apr 20, 5:00 PM ET

> If dinosaurs were like modern-day reptiles such as crocodiles, they change sex
> based on temperature, David Miller of the University of Leeds noted. And even 
> a
> small skewing of populations toward males would have led to eventual 
> extinction.

There's just one problem with this scenario. If dinos bit the dust
because they were too much like crocs, then why did crocs themselves
survive? 

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