Lite Verse, BC

There once was a tyrannosaurus,
who lived a long time before us,
his last name was Rex,
his hobby was sex,
and he lived when the earth was porous.

When sex didn't quite suit his mood,
he would go out hunting for food,
lizard's he'd murder,
make bronto-burgers,
and drink coffee, always fresh brewed.

Then over Rex, across the sky,
a humongous comet did fly,
it hit Australia*,
and boy, I'll tell ya,
that would soon bring a tear to his eye.

The changes now begun weren't good,
it would change everything, it would,
down with the tyrannos,
up with the mammals,
well, there goes the old neighborhood.

So little light, and acid rain,
it was too much, for his walnut brain**,
he couldn't quite grasp,
the next breath, his last,
that nothing would ever be the same.

Never to see his grandkids, the birds***,
never to achieve spoken words,
it's quite a raw deal,
after your last meal,
to quess your kind evolve to nerds...

As black smoke choked all the big guys,
if Rex new of history's surprise,
he'd say, "It's quite rude,
to wind up as crude,
millenia after one dies."

So one might conslude, if docile,
you may just out-last those who're vile,
there're bigger targets,
they deserve what they gets,
and all that is left is a fossil.

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* Actually, an impact crater likely to be the one associated with the Iridium trace is actually in the Yucatan jungle. This ring is roughly the time of the dinosaur die off, and is interesting as Iridium exists primarily in meteors.

Have you ever tried rhyming Yucatan? You can't, man.

**Actually, the T Rex brain was fairly large, primarily due to the large optic capacity (good eyesight); the rest (cognative) was rather small in comparison to something that large...Roughly the size of two fists together. The Rhino sized hood or tri-horns did possess a brain the size of a walnut, though.

*** Recent evidence is questioning whether or not birds are the direct descendants of dinosaurs, based on vestigal anatomy.

I, however, believe the fossil record to be incomplete, as well as the fossil 8-track, the fossil cassette, and fossil CD. That is, vestigal limbs would not always hold up well enough to be fossilized, but other, mature sample's bones do show sufficient blood flow to indicate most dinos were warm blooded.