> Actually, there's a newer theory about the
> extinction of the dinosaurs that I quite like.
> It's based on the observation that in colder
> climes, there will be an increase in the
> percentage of lizards born female. So the
> theory proposes that, as the world approached
> the Ice Age, a progressively larger percentage
> of the dinosaur population was female, until,
> eventually, there were no males left at all.
> And, if there are no males left, there can be
> no reproduction (well, no sexual reprodution,
> anyhow, and dinosaurs weren't known for their
> ability to reproduce asexually). So the
> dinosaurs weren't destroyed in one gigantic
> earth-shattering "kaboom" (illudium Q38
> explosive space modulator or not), says this
> theory, they faded from existence in a much
> more subtle way.

But didn't you see Jurassic Park? All dinosaurs had, for no particular reason, frog DNA, so they could all spontaneously change sex so that they can keep the species alive to allow for sequels. Thus, your theory is bunk.

-Eric "The book was better" Sleator
Thu 19 Jul A.D. 2001