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Caterpillars Killed Off The Dinosaurs

A Beautiful Notion: That Caterpillars Killed Off The Dinosaurs

One of the great dinosaur puzzles, the dinosaur mystery, is why did they suddenly die off? Scientists have been debating this question for almost a hundred years and one of the most beautiful notions came from an insect scholar who thought maybe caterpillars did it. I'm not making this up.
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Dinosaurs The Killed Caterpillars

I don't believe the theory, I think it's crazy that [caterpillars] are responsible for it. By now, we know that a [huge] meteorite hit the earth and killed them and no, they didn't die all at the same time that's a myth.

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This theory is something out of a comic book or a children's fantasy? Come on, we've been over this before. I can't imagine you get all the way to being labelled a scientist and that's the best theory you can come up with for how the dinosaurs were killed off.

Dinosaurs The Killed Caterpillars

I don't think this theory is true, caterpillars cannot kill so many dinosaurs in the past. Probably I think the dinosaurs died because of a plague but I do not know exactly.

Edited: Felipe on 12th Jul, 2013 - 12:28pm

Dinosaurs The Killed Caterpillars

I have a theory, caterpillars are responsible for global warming, the economy, evolution of the human race, and anything we can add to this list but let's not blame Brian Switek for this (He is the author of the book if you didn't see the source). He is just listing what some scientists believed some decades ago and yeah, they would be considered ready for the coo coo's nest today.