Re: The fungi did it

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, frank bliss wrote:
> Don't forget the problems affiliated with silicosis from ash inhalation 

This stirs an old recollection of an instance of this in the middle US (I
think it was), old mammals/mesozoic something or other. The remains showed
they presumably died from ash inhalation. Mass kill of some kind...

Sorry I recall this more accurately...

> as well as carbon particles from the fires.  The massive number animals 
> with lung disease in the years following the impactor must have been 
> made much more miserable by any other factors present as well. Fungi is 
> opportunistic in its approach so secondary infections would be a likely 
> course of progress.  Big animals inhale large amounts of air through 
> respiration and thus become big air filters.  Smaller organisms may not 
> have suffered as much.    It makes sense to me that Fungi was no fun.  
> Gee.  ;-)
> [...]