THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: A new theory for dinosaur extinction.

Scientists from the University of Reading and the University of Bristol claim that dinos had a longer goodbye than we’d thought. It’s possible that the group spent about 50 million years in decline before going extinct.

That isn’t to say that there wasn’t some massive eruption or collision that finally killed them. About three quarters of all the life on Earth went extinct in the same event, so we know that something big must have gone down (or, in the case of a volcanic eruption, come up). But it’s possible we can’t blame the demise of the dinos entirely on this one event.

After the last eight years, I have nothing but empathy for how the dinosaurs might have felt.