The dinosaurs that refused to die
We've gone dinosaur crazy here at Weird Science Towers.
Just a day after ruminating on the cause of their sudden disappearance, a report on Eureka! suggests dinos didn't die out straight away after all.
Like in Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, it seems isolated communities of prehistoric beasties lived long past the mass extinction 65 million years ago.
New evidence has revealed that dinosaur bones from New Mexico date from after the big wipe-out by as much as half a million years.
This finding is based on detailed chemical investigations of the dinosaur bones, and evidence for the age of the rocks in which they are found.
So as well as crocodiles and flying theropod dinosaurs (bird to you and me) maybe a few of the bigger monsters managed to survive the asteroid impact/caterpillar attack.
Alas, they didn't hang around long enough to be discovered on a mysterious island by a rag-tag group of adventurers. Which is a bit of a shame.
Here's what it could have looked like courtesy of the 1925 film classic.
Weird Science Factoid: Most dinosaurs walked on their toes. They were obviously very dainty creatures.
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