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{{quote|'''Fry:''' Uh, what really killed the dinosaurs?
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* ChoRyuJin killed the dinosaurs in ''[[GaoGaiGar]]''. A giant meteor was involved but mostly it was because of ChoRyuJin.
* Getter Rays in ''[[Getter Robo]]'' are deadly to dinosaurs. They didn't completely wipe out the Dinosaurs though, as the Dinosaur Empire was able to hide in the Magma Layer. Hence the heroes using Getter Robo to finish the job when the Dinos show up in modern times.
* The meteor was deliberately dropped by aliens in ''[[Guyver]]'', to clear out their initial experimental
* From [[Keroro Gunsou]], Angol Mois' mother is credited for this (in context, the Angol are a race of ''planet-splitting world destroyers'', so this crosses into [[Holding Back the Phlebotinum]].)
** The first movie contradicts this however, by showing murals of ancient Keronian weapon Kiruru of being responsible.
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* Another example of "sentient dinosaurs end up causing the K-T" occurs in the story ''Hermes of the Ages'' by Frederick D. Gottfried. Sapient coelurosaurs develop biological warfare, which they THOUGHT the effects of their bioweapons would be limited to their own species...it goes horribly, horribly wrong.
** And another one is ''Who Lies Sleeping: the Dinosaur Heritage and the Extinction of Man'' by Mike Magee. Though the sentient dinosaurs are ultimately wiped out by a nuclear war, they had already wrecked the world beyond reparation via massive pollution, climate change and deforestation to give pastures to their massive herds of ceratopsians and hadrosaurs.
* [[David Drake]]'s ''Time Safari''. Human beings travel back in time to hunt dinosaurs, and of course most of these trips go back to the Late Cretaceous because everybody wants to bag a [[Tyrannosaurus Rex|T.rex]]. You may think you know where this was going, but its subverted ''hard''
** Which makes [http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0007288 this] [[Hilarious in Hindsight]].
* Played with in Michael Crichton's [[Jurassic Park|The Lost World]], in which Ian Malcolm makes a study on extinction and begins to debunk the theory of the dinosaurs being wiped out by a meteor. {{spoiler|Towards the end, they establish that any mistake or miscalculation in an ecosystem, no matter how small, can compromise the survival of an entire species.}}
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*** Dinosaurs were creatures corrupted by the existance of sin, making them [[Exclusively Evil]].
*** Dinosaurs never existed and their remains were placed by either God or Satan to test the faith of the less commited Christians.
* In ''The Science Of [[Discworld]]'', the Terribly Dull
* 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 artificialy 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.
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** The [[Expanded Universe]] intimates that Q killed the dinosaurs after using a spatial rift to divert an asteroid hurled at him by another Q. He would later be charged with overseeing the rebuilding of Earth's ecosystem, including nurturing any sentients that might arise. He left a gift for us in the form of the [[Everything's Better with Platypi|platypus]].
*** Bonus points for explicitly stating that the asteroid had iridium in it, which was determined to be true for the dinosaur-ending asteroid.
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' two-parter "The Sixth Extinction" briefly skirts the topic of what killed the dinosaurs, suggesting that [[Ancient Astronauts]] visited Earth five times before, destroying its dominant species and introducing new ones. The mammals (including us humans) are the latest masters of earth, introduced after the "fifth extinction"
* In ''[[Dinosaurs]],'' the last episode revealed that the dinosaurs were wiped out by {{spoiler|Earl Sinclair. No, this wasn't one of the funny 'paleontologist in the present' episodes; we end with the family shivering as the ice piles up, Earl having to explain to his family why they are all about to die.}}
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