Paleontologists have recently been favoring the theory that it was not a meteorite impact with the earth that caused extinction of the Dinosaurs, but lack of refrigeration. Recent evidence shows that over the course of about one million years, carnivores were slowly consuming herbivores at a rate in which nature could not replace them, and were themselves slowly dying a septic death from bacterial infection brought on by ingesting rotting meat. Paleontologist Wilfred Kazanjian was quoted as saying, "Humans have known about this bacterial thing for quite some time now, but apparently the dinosaurs didn't. If they'd only discovered Freon..."