When people think of the dinosaurs their minds will predominantly conjure up two thoughts; one regarding their lives – a fairly basic, and popular, Jurassic Park view – and one on the end of their lives. Many people are fascinated by just what it was that did in the dinosaurs. And though now the Alvarez hypothesis – the position that a large asteroid impacted the Yucatan Peninsula sixty-five million years ago – holds sway as lead theory, there is more to it than just “big asteroid go kablooie!”