Extinction Event Explorer Gifts

"Here we still are, eh? So much for the gloom-and-doom types who warned us against eating all the vegetation."

'Well, there's something you don't see every day'

Questions about an old case refuse to go away. . .

"Ooh look Derek. A shooting star. Quick make a wish"

"We're at the top of the food chain and rulers of all we survey. What could possibly go wrong?"

65 Million Years Ago

"I shop, therefore I am."

'Hello Colin, I'm Arthur, any idea what all the fuss is about?'

'Now, think hard about it: Do you want to be known as the one who ate the last Dodo?'

"Where do you think we are in the food chain right now?"

"I'm sending you an interesting article about declining birth rates."

'I'd hire you, but the word is going around you guys are practically extinct!'

'...And they're giving us sixty million years to get in compliance.'

"Something will fall down from the sky and it will be the end of the world - just because you didn't eat all of your carrion for lunch, my boy!"

'Good grief! Aren't you guys extinct yet?'

Asteroid Denying Dinosaur vs. Asteroid Believing Dinosaur.

'Just as I suspected, Simpson. The extinction process happened very suddenly.'

"That's a meteor. If it hits the ground its a meteorite."

The End of the World is Nigh - man with placard

You heard earth's just entered its sixth great extinction event? Really? Vertebrate species are dying at a rate not seen since the dinosaurs died off. This time It's thanks to us. But the good thing is, scientists think humans will die off pretty early in this mass extinction. How's that a good thing? We won't be around to hear the other animals say "I told you so."

"Some dinosaurs died out more quickly than others" "You want some?"

"This is a little embarrassing to admit, but everything that happens happens for no real reason."

"Frankly, I don't like the way things are going."

How to survive the coming crash.

"In the late Cretaceous" "What do you mean, you're here for all of us at once?"

'Any history of extinction in your family?'

"I want the hatchlings to grow up in a nurturing comet free environment."

The sudden extinction of Neanderclowns

"What asteroid?"

'I blog, therefore I am.'

Bio-obsolescence

'Oh, come on -- everything can't be extinct!'

'Yes, as dodos, we can't fly, but if we could only learn to climb trees, we would be safe from predators...'

Clownosaurus killed by a giant mud pie.

"I had a dream about a huge flaming rock falling from the sky! What do you think it means?"