Hypotheses abound, regarding the extinction of the reptilian hordes, those base or of distinction. Some aver, and others vow, things must have gone this way and when I hear such lofty speech, I clear my throat and say:
“It seems to me that when we speak with such calm certitude we miss the possibility of death by attitude. For when I look upon these bones of prehistoric herds I catch a glimpse of simpler times, and then I see the “birds”
For while the stegosaurus trod with stoic steps so slow I perceive he may have been arraigned as one below the wild heights of soaring things, with pointed, cackling heads who mocked him at his every turn (which stegosauri dread)
And so as this terrestrial life was bound to suffer so The pterodactyls found great fun to drive them all to woe They drove them off, by day and night, until they were defunct, the primal victims of a craft; the first to e’er be punk’d”