This is an old article but how could I pass it up....

July 28 2000 at 11:13AM

Beijing - Contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs were not wiped out by a meteorite or a planetary catastrophe, but by the power and potency of their own wind, a Chinese report said on Friday.


According to the China Youth Daily, which quotes an unidentified French scientist, dinosaur wind contained a high proportion of methane gas, lethal enough to penetrate the ozone layer.


'They would fart non-stop'
"The animals, weighing from 80 to 100 tons, would eat on average between 130 and 260 kgs of food every day. They would fart non-stop", said the traditionally austere paper.

During the dinosaurs' 100 million year existance, "the atmosphere of earth became charged with methane, which finally damaged the ozone layer and brought about great changes in the vegetation," it said.

The changes caused a food shortage which eventually wiped them out.

The ozone layer protects the atmosphere from the sun's ultra-violet rays. - Sapa-AFP

Well, interesting theory, but I tend to believe it was either abnormal volcanic activity, or a meteorite that caused mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

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Is this where the saying "a fart in the wind" came from? Just wondering.

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So Hazelnut, are you conviced it was methane gas that caused the extinction?

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"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." Thomas Paine

Military might doesn't make up for political stupidity.

If the atmosphere was full of methane, a bolt of lightning would have set off the whole place...