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*** Dinosaurs were creatures corrupted by the existence of sin, making them [[Exclusively Evil]].
*** [[Earth Is Young|Dinosaurs never existed]] and [[Jerkass Gods|their remains were placed by either God or Satan]] to test the faith of the less committed Christians.
* In ''[[Discworld/The Science of Discworld|The Science of Discworld]]'', the Terribly Dull Lizards—like many organisms from other time periods, very nearly including us—were indeed wiped out by a random and cataclysmic meteorite impact. It's still Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs, because the reason there are so many rocks drifting around the solar system to ''become'' meteorites is because the UU student body had been tossing them at "The Target" (= Jupiter) as part of a cross-cosmic video game, and they never bothered to sweep up their unused ammunition.
* In Kage Baker's [[The Company Novels]], a defective Immortal claims to have wiped out the dinosaurs through his abuse of time travel. However, he's also quite clearly insane, so it isn't certain if he's telling the truth.
* In the [[Star Trek: The Lost Era]] novel ''The Buried Age'', the Permian extinction event is chosen instead - it was a consequence of an artificially-induced galaxy-wide disaster. The [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] known as Manraloth accidentally caused the entire galactic population to [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]], releasing terrible amounts of energy which irradiated planets. In the aftermath, the artificially maintained habitats of the Manraloth degraded, destabilizing stars, among other dangerous side-effects. The galaxy was an irradiated hellhole until sapient life evolved again millions of years later.