Topic: 67 Million-Year-Old Snake Fossil Found Eating Baby Dinosaurs

[sam]

Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling. This is the first evidence of snakes eating dinosaurs.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/snake-eats-babydinosaurs/

[Clive]

So all these years we have been duped into thinking that it was an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?   

[Rik]

Blame Walt Disney.

[Simon]

Walt Disney killed the dinosaurs? 

[Rik]

Fantasia...

[Simon]

Never seen it.

[Rik]

You should give it a try - if you like animation. It was way ahead of its time.

[Simon]

I was never really into Disney.

[Rik]

I was, the generation gap coming into play again.

[Simon]

Indeed.  I enjoyed The Lion King, but I guess that wasn't of the 'classic' Disney era.

[Rik]

It wasn't, and Fantasia is very special, Disney created several new techniques to make the epic. It's the ultimate piece of escapism, very popular with the psychedelic generation.

[Simon]

Yeah, man. 

[Rik]

You youngsters. 

[Simon]