Comments on: Dinosaurs Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:29:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Valkeiper2012 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:58:53 +0000 Some scientists are postulating the impactor may have been a comet instead of a asteroid because of the apparent speed of the impact crater in the Yucatan and the minerals found there.

By: Mr V Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:38:32 +0000 Well yes, that is correct as far as I have read too. The prehistoric volcanic lava eruptions they have found in India that date to this time are, incidentally, pretty well opposite planet-wise to where the big rock is meant to have landed. As for birds, apparently there were already ‘birds’ around at the time of the extinction, so it’s likely that they were no longer ‘dinosaurs’ at that time anyway. Crocs and tuataras also apparently remain relatively unchanged in the millions of years since, so they’ve managed all right since the rock, too. 🙂

Nice to hear about the familiarities between the strip and your own primary school, too! The red brick toilets here were only because I wanted a different colour to tell the buildings apart! 😀

Welcome to School Spirit, too!

By: David Harding Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:18:01 +0000 Hi; just read your comic. As it happens I went to a small school for 5th and 6th grade, and it not only had an adjacent graveyard (strictly out of bounds of course) but red brick toilets and a two story red brick school house and had combined classes as well!
As for the extinction of most Dinosaurs (birds are actually descendant from them, so they didn’t all die out), this was caused by an asteroid impact. What most Volcanic eruption diehards either do not realize or ‘conveniently’ overlook is one effect of a major strike is the shock waves race around the world and come to a focus on the opposite side of the world, triggering massive earthquakes leading to volcanic eruptions.
So it is probable both were involved, but as the impact triggered them the asteroid was the sole culprit. But due to limitations in geological dating it is currently impossible to prove both events were that closely linked.