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Dinosaurs were related, and when a virus mutated, this affected them all. The dinosaur survived to become the current
reptiles because, as with any infection, there are some who have resistance. All became sickly, and the smaller ones needed
less to eat than the larger, and thus prevailed. There has been an intense discussion on tt-watch about this matter, based on
our statements, where it has been determined that the dinosaurs died out gradually, not suddenly as a meteor winter would
have caused. At the same time, the discussion questioned how many species of dinosaurs could be similarly afflicted by a
single virus. Specialization in species is a concept understood by man, as he sees frog populations worldwide affected by
the recent earth changes, such that they appear to be dying out. Coral reefs likewise appear fragile, subject to pollution
damage. The issue is not so much how hale a creature is, as how vulnerable. The T-Rex was huge, had evolved to a large
size, as had the herbivores of those days.
Today, large whales migrate around the world in the oceans, and elephants rumble through the jungles, so this size should
not be that surprising. Yet the mammoth is extinct, in spite of living in great herds only millennia ago. Mankind likewise
could be wiped out by the AIDS virus, as it is routinely fatal with few proving to be immune. A virus mutates, as the AIDS
virus has such that a vaccine cannot be developed effectively against it. Ebola has likewise mutated and migrated, afflicting
mankind now increasingly. One might look back and say, in a hypothetical future, that man numbered 6 billion, had
technology, but they all died out! Those large dinosaurs that had immunity to the virus were nonetheless weakened, and
struggled for food in this condition. Smaller creatures who reached a bit of food made this go further, and struggled forward
to reproduce and pass on their immunity. Thus, just as the last of the mammoth died because they were weakened from
having to migrate back to the grasslands, and the young among them failed this migration, just so the large dinosaurs passed.