Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Fry:''' Uh, what really killed the dinosaurs?<br />

** 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'' -- what actually does in the dinosaurs is a captive tyrannosaur that was re-released into the Cretaceous wild. Seems it was carrying a bird infection that it picked up while it was in the 20th century...

* 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.}}

* [[David Weber]]'s ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'' trilogy has the Achuultani, genocidal [[Horde of Alien Locusts|aliens]] who have been wiping out all complex life in the galaxy (besides themselves) for over seventy million years. While they were destroying a defensive base of the alien "First Imperium" on [[Earthshattering Kaboom|the planet that the asteroid belt used to be]], they whacked Earth with a much smaller asteroid, causing the extinction.

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