On their way out 50 million..

[Tero]

..years before asteroid. Just like guitar groups were on their way out in 1962.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/science-e ... t-36073592

[Tero]

Add to that the new seed theory
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36102018

[mistermack]

Can't see crocodiles living on seeds.

[Tero]

They eat the birds, except the ones that pick their teeth clean.

[cronus]

Birds could fly across the barren nuclear landscape. And land on a dead animal spotted from above. Always gonna be a advantage doing that.

[mistermack]

I still have a nagging suspicion that dinosaurs were killed off by the evolution of specialised egg-eaters.

Birds were nesting in trees, and laying smaller eggs. Crocodiles and turtles buried their eggs, and crocodiles defended the nest as well.

But dinosaurs that laid their eggs in the open died out.

I often wondered about the huge ocean-living dinosaurs and reptiles. Were they giving birth to live young? Some would seem to be too adapted to water to haul out and make a nest.

And surely, they would have found the eggs of the Loch Ness Monster by now?

[Brian Peacock]

It was the flying crocodiles that did for the dinosaurs, and by such shortsightedness themselves also.