BS: Did dinos' farts cause their extinction?

Subject: RE: BS: Did dinos' farts cause their extinction?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 08 May 12 - 11:41 AM

From the article:

"The researchers found that the greenhouse gas methane produced by all sauropods across the globe would have been about 520 million tons per year, a number on par with the total amount of methane currently produced by both natural and man-made sources. [Album: World's Biggest Beasts]"

Indeed Walt Kelly was correct. "We have met the enemy and he is us."

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Question: would that measure be in long or short tons, does anyone know? I'm gonna work it out in ounces and your answer could make a considerable difference to the final answer.

Subject: RE: BS: Did dinos' farts cause their extinction?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 08 May 12 - 11:16 AM

yes thank heaven dinosaurs aren't allowed in lifts.....

Subject: RE: BS: Did dinos' farts cause their extinction?
From: Owen Woodson
Date: 08 May 12 - 08:44 AM

Dunno about dinosuars, but if the amount of farting my dog does is anything to by, we're all doomed.

Subject: RE: BS: Did dinos' farts cause their extinction?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 May 12 - 08:35 AM

They did indeed. Dinos would load up on vegetable matter or other dinos, and both produce immense amounts of intestinal gas. As the dinos got larger and larger more and more gas was produced. Finally, when they'd let one rip they'd shoot off like a balloon expelling all the air in it or they'd just explode. In either case it was the end of the dino; fragments in one case and an empty shell in another. The fossils we find are the empties, you can tell because they're usually pretty flat.

If you had been around at the end of the Jurassic you would have seen thousands of dinosaurs of all sizes jetting all over the place. And that wasn't an asteroid that finished them off -- it was a flatulent gigantosaurus who landed in the sea off Yucatan.

Subject: RE: BS: Did dinos' farts cause their extinction?
From: Stu
Date: 08 May 12 - 07:40 AM

Well, it's not purposeless fiddling, but following scientific convention on naming taxons. Apatosaurus was discovered first, fossils discovered later were assigned to Brontosaurus and further study revealed the remains were actually Apatosaurus.Therefore Brontosaurus doesn't exist in effect, and the name is a junior synonym of the original Apatosaurus, which quite rightly is what the animal is called. This was first pointed out around 1903.

As for the dino fart theory, that seems (although I haven't read the paper) a load of crap. Ta boom!

Subject: RE: BS: Did dinos' farts cause their extinction?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 08 May 12 - 07:28 AM

"such titans as Apatosaurus (once known as Brontosaurus)"

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...slight drift, but I think relevant to topic of dinos in general ~~

Why the hell did they have to change the name? We all knew them as brontos? on whose authority was the name changed to confuse us all? & with what purpose? Why will 'they' [whoever 'they' may be] keep purposelessly and pointlessly fiddling with everything?

Bah!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Did dinos' farts cause their extinction?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 May 12 - 06:59 AM

Dippingdokus

Subject: RE: BS: Did dinos' farts cause their extinction?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 08 May 12 - 05:22 AM

I've always suspected it was the lack of a penis that hastened the extinction of these strange beasts. When did you ever see a dinosaur with a hard on in all these dinosaur films

I bet they had massive willies. Randy dinosaurs would make the subject of a great film - Jurassic Poke!

Subject: RE: BS: Did dinos' farts cause their extinction?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 May 12 - 03:54 AM

He is!

Subject: BS: Did dinos' farts cause their extinction?
From: Genie
Date: 07 May 12 - 11:16 PM

Dinosaur Farts May Have Caused Prehistoric Global Warming.


(I thought Spaw might be interested in this theory.)

Genie