Re: Stupid "Theories"

["Simon M. Clabby" <dinowight@yahoo.co.uk>]

I have the paper on this, I think someone on the list
posted the link, but if not, here it is again.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6T6K-4C52V28-7-B&_cdi=5033&_orig=search&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F2004&_sk=999189995&view=c&wchp=dGLbVzb-zSkWz&_acct=C000010018&_version=1&_userid=1695493&md5=ed5fb60016510df644a8a0b2fcae3903&ie=f.pdf

Youe'll need access to Science Direct, however, so
sorry to those who don't have it

Simon

 --- "Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu> wrote: >
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, [iso-8859-1] Simon M. Clabby
> wrote:
> > I'm working on a website at the moment called
> "Stupid
> > Dinosaur 'Theories'", in which I include some of
> the
> > more unlikely, and in some cases frankly stupid,
> > "theories" that have been published about
> dinosaurs in
> > the past, and I would be interested in some of
> your
> > ideas. 
> > [...]
> 
> This might fall in the unlikely category:
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3647115.stm
> 
> Fewer females wiped out dinosaurs
> 
> Too many males may have been the reason the
> dinosaurs died out 65 million
> years ago, say Leeds University scientists.
> 
> They believe the dinosaurs could have been like
> modern-day reptiles such
> as crocodiles whose sex depends upon the temperature
> before they are born.
> 
> The idea is that the asteroid which struck changed
> the world's climate,
> causing it to be cooler and leading to the birth of
> a preponderance of
> males.
> 
> The male-female imbalance would have led to the
> dinosaurs' extinction. 
> ...
> David Miller, of the University of Leeds, and
> colleagues ran an analysis
> that showed a temperature shift could theoretically
> have led to a
> preponderance of males among the dinosaurs.
> ...
>  

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