I know we now know they went extinct 66 million years ago, and 64 millions is another date I’ve seen around, but how long how we known it was definitely way more than 40 millions ? I’m asking because it’s the date given in the the song “walk the dinosaurs” by Was (Not Was), and I wondered why such a number. Would it have seed credible at the time, or was it just arbitrary?
I’m going to go out on a limb and say, Was (Not Was) did not fact-check their lyrics while writing Walk the Dinosaur. The whole song is basically an acid trip stream of barely-consciousness. One of the writers has said it was about nuclear armageddon, so there’s that.
Elvis landed in a rocket ship
Healed a couple of lepers and disappeared. But where was his beard?
To be clear, it was the '80s. Everything was about nuclear Armageddon.
Yeah, I’ve heard the nuclear interpretation from there. The number still could have a meaning tho…