How did the stegosaurus become extinct?

Question

How did the stegosaurus become extinct?

Answer 1

Try this book:

Fastovsky DE, Weishampel DB: The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (2nd Edition). Cambridge University Press, pp107–130.

ISBN 0-521-81172-4

Answer 2

Stegosaurus, which lived during the Jurassic Period, the second period of the Mesozoic - NOT during the Cretaceous, which ended with the famous meteor and extinction event 65.5 million years ago.  It went extinct during the "minor" mass extinction at the end of the Jurassic, which was caused by one or more currently unknown events.  The extinction, rather than wiping out families, appears to have wiped out organisms on the species level (so not everything in the families affected would have been wiped out).  Some stegosaurids did make it into the early Cretaceous, but not Stegosaurus itself (unless something has been recently published of which I am not aware, which is entirely possible because I study archaeology, not Mesozoic paleontology).

That being said, this is an anthropology board.  Anthropologists study humans; the only paleontologists would be ones that study humans and human evolution in the fossil record.  Dinosaurs existed far before humans (we are in a completely different era, even), so this question probably should have been posted in the geology section or somewhere similar.

Answer 3

It happened when the females became lesbians and preferred the company of weak and submissive males over strong ones.

Answer 4

Meteor Strike

Answer 5

Dinosaurs have nothing to do with Anthropology. Anthropology is the study of human culture and, more specifically, Archaeology is the study of the physical remains of past human life and activities. Neither have anything to do with dinosaurs!