Re: Did mozzies, not a meteor, do for the dinosaurs?
I don't know, but I never did buy the old asteroid theory. It's just too far fetched.
It could be something simple like competition with smarter mammals. Which is how they think Neanderthal disappeared. DNA proved he was never our ancestor after all, but a distant cousin instead.
But what would be a predator to a dinosaur? That's another question. Because a lot of them were so huge, we find it difficult to imagine any other animal could have developed into something that could take down a dinosaur. Disease is certainly a possibility, especially if several new ones developed every few years.
Maybe the changes in climate did produced dino killers!
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