is he dead yet

[Slurpee]

it just occurred to me how weird of a question "what killed the dinosaurs?" is
it was 65 million years ago lol
on that timescale nothing needs to "kill" anything for it to not be around

"what killed the tethys ocean? "

the himilayas and the baltic sea didn't exist back then. the western interior seaway did. we're not living on a planet where the dinosaurs were removed and we inherited their real estate, we're living on a planet that has been continuously becoming something else for billions of years. species aren't objects that exist independently of time. it's a name we give to a population of similar related individual organisms continually reproducing, varying, adapting, and eventually diverging or disappearing. uh except for crocodiles, horseshoe crabs, and tardigrades for some reason

[PhantomCatClock]

there are still dinosaurs if you make a Project Gorgon account