itt: pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s---oL1N5XV--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/813266302148042132.jpg

no meteors in pix of feathered tyrannosaurs, i call shenanigans

I am genuinely quite surprised by how many different pictures there are.

xxp the dinosaurs died of meteor-induced trypophobia

pinefox i suspect we have not scratched the surface: this is just eng-lang google searches (and some japanese)

http://imgc-cn.artprintimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/100/10013/DHYW500Z/posters/will-mcphail-asteroid-in-armchair-has-dinosaur-head-over-mantelpiece-a-play-on-a-hunte-new-yorker-cartoon.jpg

http://www.dinosauria.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/fig1.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/42/68/fc/4268fc75b6b8be65f5b450db5250667b.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/517V7TqkFRL.jpg

http://img11.deviantart.net/e6a4/i/2008/170/6/1/extinction_by_raptorbarry.jpg

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2016/1-13/Nm3Rz5O2LO-7.png

http://anopusperdiem.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/20160517_130058_crop.jpg

sappy

http://orig14.deviantart.net/5892/f/2007/261/6/2/prehistoric_guitarist_by_antmanthemagnif.jpg

crying

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/26/8e/b8/268eb89af0753a3201b9480ec516f7b2.jpg

been avoiding posting this but i think i have to

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxpXkTniETw/U-Q8hPCsH3I/AAAAAAAALgQ/cnRfKl1gHbY/s1600/handprint+dino+(7).JPG

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/3-2/GeH2rRZTNf-6.png

aw

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AU-KR14KvUU/VHNq4FN-J2I/AAAAAAAAGPs/OR5v22iw9f0/s1600/PTDC0150.JPG

http://img06.deviantart.net/bed9/i/2009/331/6/0/the_end_by_kitchen_face.jpg

http://static.wixstatic.com/media/247c11_0954bf1c00b849648c075234084f878e.jpg_srz_500_330_85_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz

https://www.images-booknode.com/book_cover/66/full/les-cometes-ont-elles-tue-les-dinosaures---65708.jpg

i am not being allowed post a picture of a flaming asteroid falling on two dinosaurs doing it on a giant ocean-bound cheese

http://pre00.deviantart.net/08cb/th/pre/f/2016/138/5/0/duiarn_by_chiiaros-da2zf4o.png

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2015/3-4/fmXZZMs6ON-6.png

https://demonsresume.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/night-of-the-comet.jpg

http://t03.deviantart.net/mI78Zg5CpZvx-3xmYqu5n5EooYo=/fit-in/700x350/filters:fixed_height(100,100):origin()/pre13/c7b2/th/pre/i/2011/288/4/2/three_dinosaurs_and_a_meteor_by_duderoth-d4cxij0.png

CGI ones are all dud

Kid-drawn ones all classic

excellent thread mark

http://cdn.nlgeek-bogatovka.savviihq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/extinction_dino.jpg.61a6d06296e91a206a3de57c7617e206-620x315.jpg

http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/wavepic.jpeghttp://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/K-TCLOSE.jpg

http://www.history.com/s3static/video-thumbnails/AETN-History_VMS/806/291/History_Ask_History_Dinosaurs_SF_HD_1104x622-16x9.jpg

face-hugger an intriguing addition there

could be dreads

dinodreads

If that meteor had come just half a minute later, it would have hit somewhere in either the Atlantic or Pacific. Either location would have made some killer waves (literally), but at least it wouldn’t have killed as many dinos.

http://www.popsci.com/

I don't think this one's appeared yet

http://yucatanexpatlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/crateristock700.jpg

kind of a "Houses of the Holy" vibe to it imo

CGI ones are all dud

― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 19 May 2017 14:32 (one hour ago)

sorry you feel that way. imho CGI stock images have an eerie, hyperreal quality that perfectly suits the subject matter

http://i.imgur.com/9VMDZfp.jpg

For sheer verisimilitude, I prefer the photos taken at the time. Unfortunately the resolution tends to be poor because camera technology was very rudimentary.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/9e/5f/f5/9e5ff561d13d23704544abb2ea9580ee.jpg

What were the dominant theories of dino extinction before the asteroid version took hold? Apparently it was first posited in the 50s but hard evidence didn't turn up til 1980? It's what I grew up with... just was wondering if generic dino picture books from 1955 (with, one imagines, great hand-painted illustrations) would have gone with the meteor or something more boring.

https://preview.ibb.co/gYhrFv/asteroids.jpg

inspired by my parents recent unironic trip to the creation museum, where apparently this (minus the poster) is a real exhibit

i have mine and my dad's (and one of my grandad's) dinosaur books in storage -- they all have great pictures but no big theories of extinction that i remember, it wasn't really an issue (catastrophism only came back in fashion in the 1980s)

i should post some photos from them

there isn't a meteor in the dinosaur sequence from Fantasia iirc? It just gets really hot and dry, then they all die.

iirc one of the theories in the 70's was "the mammals ate all the eggs"

some earlier theories here

http://www.history.com/topics/why-did-the-dinosaurs-die-out

going off by what i learnt over 15 years ago but wasn't it a meteor and climate change that caused their extinction?

oh pre-that i think one was flatulance wasn't it?

shouldn't rely on comedy skits to teach me stuff tho

http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/843180/530wm/F0181247-End_of_cretaceous_KT_event%2C_illustration-SPL.jpg

https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/802/508/508802.jpg

http://www.doodydoodles.com/sitebuilder/images/EPOCH_FAIL-585x462.jpg

the very early theories of what created fossils tended to be semi-bibilical: that they were bones of creatures that hadn't survived the flood (or perhaps more than one flood, or some kind of catastrophic upheaval, there were various ideas)

dinosaurs were named as a species a couple of decades before darwin's published the origin of species and by the time they were being sought and taxonomised in number, the darwinist orthodoxy was gradualism rather than catastrophes (stephen jay gould wrote several interesting essays on this, not least bcz he thought that "punctuated equilibrium" was the process: in other words not a pure gradualism)

the alvarez thesis was a big deal, in 1980 -- not least bcz it got caught up by the anti-nuclear movement, who extrapolated the idea of nuclear winter from the alvarez proposal, that vast clouds of dust kicked up by the comet/asteroid had blotted out sunlight for decades, shifting the climate