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10 Reasons Why Dinosaurs No Longer Live on Our Earth
Published by CHAN LEE PENG in Animal
September 8th, 2008
When mentioning the extinction of the dinosaurs, what is in your mind?
The dinosaurs are vertebrate animals that dominated our planet for over 160 million years ago. It is said that they first appeared on our land 230 million years ago. Our attention was drawn to the dinosaurs after watching the blockbuster science fiction film entitled Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg in 1993. By the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65 million years ago, they had experienced a catastrophic extinction. How often have you wondered what happened to the dinosaurs? Do you know what factors contributed to their rapid extinction? Now, let me tell you my theories on behalf of their rapid disappearance from our Earth.
Photo credit: William
The dinosaurs seemed to have been the victims of raining meteorites before they could attend the emergency class held by their ancestors. The meteor attack was not wholly an incidental event in their world. Instead, its attack was too sudden and inevitable for them to even have enough time to learn to run away from this scary calamity. Well, the blame should go to the dinosaurs as they were not alert to rescue themselves during the critical moment.
Photo credit: archeology.net
The second theory is that the dinosaurs were hit hard by an extremely cold wave during the prehistoric time. At that moment, our earth was not very warm. Most of the animals including the dinosaurs did not have enough time to go through a thorough evolution process. Not much hair had grown out on their bodies. No wonder they disappeared from our Earth so fast! As their bodies have very little hair, how could they stand the cold? Their physical properties were denied and they could not survive in this extreme weather. That’s why they collapsed to the ground helplessly.
Photo credit: Martin Lupez
Perhaps the dinosaurs had their lives placed at a greater risk and they burnt to ash in a volcanic eruption event. They were unable to run away from this natural disaster as they hadn’t been put themselves into an army-like harsh practice and training to cope with this sudden disaster. For them, the fire that was spilled out of the mouth of the volcano could be a nightmare in their lifetime. Further, the fire balls that were shooting high up into the sky can be as destructive as the atomic bomb. So, how could they prepare for the scary scene of the volcanic eruption before their innocent lives were taken away?
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Great reading, Chan. I have believed since grade school that the reason for dinosaur extinction was the Ice Age but we may never know for sure.
I enjoyed this topic on one of my childhood interests and the pictures are great.
Darlene
What ever ult. killed them…I am just glad they are not still here. I would hate to be on the run from one of those bad boys. As always great pics and wonderful read.
I’m with Darlene on this interesting topic. Although like jo oliver, I wouldn’t like having to run from fear, dinosaurs are still fascinating creatures to learn about!
Icy
it’s a very interesting article on the most interesting though the most the most scary animal of this world whether present or extinct…
Or maybe they come from the remains of some other big planet, debris from which the earth was formed. I believe in creation. There is certainly no doubt that they existed, anyways. Thank you for bringing the topic. Chan Lee Peng, this is an excellent article, as usual.
interesting,a fun read,i think ice age and meteorites were the closest theories for their extinction,
I agree with you Norbert. There is substantial evidence precluding to a great Ice Age. However, that still does not rule out the others ideas.
I wish i can have these as pets. ha ha ha. Great article Chan!
interesting article….
interesting article….
Great Chan
One or two of your theories may be true. But I think all animals will go extinct in time. Nice article…
very interesting
You lacked only the deluge,lol,Interesting article,you have a flexible mind,and that produces new theories.
Nice Article
Very interesting and imaginative. We were taught in school that the ice age killed the dinosaurs. I’m sure there could have been any other number of reasons they didn’t live.
This is a great article for those that love to read about dinosaurs.
I am guessing there a 100 more theories invloved in the dinosaur demise. Thanks for the ride….
Haha, interesting, i think the real reason was that it existed for testing before human to live on this earth.
Since they survived for such an unbelievably long time with such a small brain and relatively useless arms beyond many cycles of gasseous emmissions, ice ages, meteors etc. The question is HOW?
They were here for so LONG…. Did they have help from intelligent life? If so why????
They certainly are big, with very little brains. HUMMM.
Perhaps some intelligent life form or alien had an interest in farming the creatures. Could this be why they survived for so long? Was Earth a giant dinosaur farm? Did they fly in and harvest the meat? Did they provide additional feed stock to these creatures? Was the dinosaur a highly bioavailable food source like the Ostrich?
Hey, they are all theories. I have yet to hear a plausible explanation for their prolonged existence. Why does the chicken survive? It certainly isn’t by way of superior adaptations.
N
Quite a few flaws look over them
love it interesting pictures btw
When I started reading this, I was interested.
The more I read it, I began to think it was all a joke.
By the time I got to the bit about the dinosaurs dying off in a prehistoric human nuclear war, I stoped reading. What a load of rubbish.
A terrible use of written English also, doesn’t do much to support the credibility of this article. For example. “volcanic eruption event”, and “The force of the tsunami is always unprecedented, so it would be too vulnerable for such creatures to fight against its super powerful strength.” The later sentence doesn’t even make sense!
Go Daniel Peters. This article is a joke!
And all of you that think the dinosaurs went extinct from the Ice Age, you are VERY WRONG.
The Ice Age started 2 million years ago and the dinosaurs went extinct 64 million years ago.
Also, none of his “theories” explain why other groups went extinct, it wasn’t just the dinosaurs.
i dont believe in this,most of all ,i believe that scientists r fighting all over the world and some r finding how they or i mean the dinosaurs hav become extinct or die i really dont believe this because even scientists will let themselves to die just to know how
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