[Junior]

Ping.

[dirtboy]

Miller's team ran an analysis that showed a temperature shift could theoretically have led to a preponderance of males. Other studies have shown that when there are too few females, eventually the population dies out.

Then one would expect that all reptilians would have died out, and not just dinosaurs.

[Republicus2001]

No, no, no, no. Its BushFault

[GraniteStateConservative]

They had women. They just had headaches too often. It also didn't help that the male dinosaurs answered wrong when asked by the female if her hips were too wide.

[Alouette]

It wasn't that there were too few females, it's just that too many dinosaurs were gay.

[kallisti]

what? all the female ones were aborted?

[NCPAC]

Lack of females would do me in, too.

[Tallguy]

2 problems with this theory:

1. Current data suggests dinosaur physiology to be more like that of modern birds, and
2. Large reptiles, like crocodiles, survived.

I think that I remember seeing a program where a major paleontologist commented on the declining diversity amoung dinosaur species BEFORE the asteriod impact event 65 million years ago. I guess that science writers can't get past their disaster-theory -- Just easier to sell to us poor, dumb, ignorant masses.

[Verginius Rufus]

Other studies have shown that when there are too few females, eventually the population dies out.

A brilliant insight, right up there with "When people are out of work, unemployment results."

[William Terrell]

Feminists beware: lack of practicing females might doom the human race.

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[ApesForEvolution]

Maybe the burgeoning ranks of the homosaurus were to blame...

[TRY ONE]

Wow! Happy Hour must have been a B*tch --- all those druken male Dino's and NO Babs!

[Nick Danger]

[Chewbacca]

So global warming is good for reptiles.

[lilylangtree]

This explanation rivals the explanation for the gooney birds in "Ice Age". As one male gooney said to the other while watching a line of gooney birds jump over the cliff chasing a watermelon, "there goes our last female."

[CholeraJoe]

Kinda reminds me of the Dodo birds in "Ice Age." "OOPs there goes our last female."

[white trash redneck]

I saw this on the Fox News crawl right after an article on same-sex marriage. I nearly fell out of my seat laughing. Looks like gay marriage was an issue in the Pleistocene era too!

[Ichneumon]

In mammals, if a baby gets an X and a Y chromosome, it will be male and if it gets two X chromosomes it will be female, with a few very rare exceptions. Similar mechanisms work for birds, snakes and some reptiles such as lizards.

Genetic trivia: In mammals (including humans, of course) the XX form is female and the "mixed" XY form is male. But in birds it's "backwards" -- the male birds have the matched "AA" sex-determining genes and the females have the mixed "AB".

[Lockbar]

Uh oh, bad news for China.