10. Evolutionary dates kept slipping.

9. Over-reliance on programming languages from the Paleozoic era.

8. Demand for large Dinosaurs leveled-off and attempts to stimulate interest by producing small Dinosaurs were not successful.

7. Nocturnal scavenger market was ceded to mammals on the mistaken notion that it was a low-volume, dead-end niche.

6. Total Quality Management.

5. Inability to effectively utilize massively-parallel evolution.

4. "Restructuring" eliminated asteroid tracking and disaster planning groups.

3. Loss of popular and articulate Tyrannosaurus Rex to the public sector.

2. Dinosaur Mission Statement did not include any form of the word "empower."

And the number one reason that Dinosaurs died out...

1. Extraneous barrier wait () call at the KT (Cretaceous/Tertiary) boundary.

3. Reading and copying

Next we shall go back to the text ABOUT DINOSAURS on page 30 again to read it and copy down all the expressions into your notebook.

Useful phrases from ANIMAL EXTINGCTION

during the long history of the earth, live on the earth, tens of millions of years ago, came into being, eggs of five species, a rare new species, a bird-like dinosaur, climb tree, tell...from..., die out, hit the earth, put...into the air, get hot, live on, know for sure, in the same way, listen to the story about..., disappear from...