Nonsense about Dinosaurs

So I may be taking the lazy way out with this, but there are a couple dinosaur articles I’ve found online that are pretty interesting, but I really don’t have much to say about them beyond maybe a couple sentences, so I’m gonna throw them up here together.

This article talks about research that has recently shown that the males of a couple species of dinosaurs, including oviraptors, had most of the responsibility for caring for eggs and young dinosaurs. This is pretty interesting, but I think I’m going to mostly ignore it. It’s just a lot more fun to think of dinosaurs as mindless killing machines.

Then there’s this article, which talks about an alternate theory for the death of the dinosaurs. Some researchers are saying that the big asteroid that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico 60 millionish years ago didn’t really kill much of anything, and that the dinosaurs, and a whole bunch of other animals and plants, were actually killed about 300,000 years later, when a bunch of volcanoes erupted, spewing poisonous gasses into the atmosphere. I’m pretty skeptical about this; not only is it pretty hard to accept that an asteroid six miles wide didn’t kill off any species, it also strains credibility to say that a series of volcanic eruptions in India poisoned dinosaurs everywhere. Some other scientists interviewed in this article say that this volcano theory has been largely discredited, and I’ve gotta agree with them. Still, it was pretty interesting.

I really love how people are still researching all sorts of different aspects of dinosaurs. None of this ever really gets old to me, and I’m really glad that some scientists feel the same way.