February 2010
5 posts
FACT: DINOSAURS ARE IN SPACE.
65 million years ago, an asteroid struck our planet in what is now the Yucatan Peninsula. Millions of dinosaurs were tragically killed either by the impact itself, or the resulting extreme climate changes it produced. Scientists have long believed these species to have been permanently extinct, but the emerging field of paleocosmology has revealed that many thousands of dinosaurs were thrown...
FACT: RAPTORS RIDE COMETS.
Raptors are agile, curious and, above all, clever, and this is one of many reasons why they have learned to use comets to their advantage. Though paleocosmologists don’t yet know where in space Raptor Headquarters are (raptors are notoriously shrewish) they now have abundant photographic evidence of raptors using comets to transport them from solar system to solar system. The above raptors...
FACT: ARGENTINOSAURS REGULARLY SURVIVE SUPERNOVAS.
Argentinosaurs were some of the largest animals to ever walk the planet (or fly off it due to a meteor impact!). At 30-40 meters (about 100-125 feet for you imperial system weirdos) and weighing in at over 100 tonnes, they ruled the mid-Cretaceous sauropods.
Paleocosmologists long considered this species to be too massive to survive in space, but a recent photograph of the supernova SN 1604...
FACT: TROODONS HAVE A MORE ADVANCED CIVILIZATION...
Troodons are widely believed to have been the most intelligent of all dinosaurs, with a brain/body ratio higher than fellow reptiles as well as most mammals of the late Cretaceous. Our fascination with this small predator and its large brain has lead to many creative interpretations, including a Star Trek novel and the development of a “Dinosauroid” - a very anthropomorphic...
FACT: T-REXES THRIVE IN BLACK HOLES
For many eons, tyrannosaurs floated through deep space subsisting on whatever unlucky alien happened to cross their path. Once the great predator of the Mesozoic, they were reduced to a farflung diaspora of starving giants and very nearly became extinct once and for all. However, about 20 million years ago, a flock of tyrannosaurs was fortunate enough to pass through the orbit of the black hole...
