Agence France-Presse: The age of dinosaurs lasted more than 160 million years, but new research out Thursday suggests their dominance had less to do with their supposed physiological superiority and more to do with blind luck. “For a long time it was thought there was something special about dinosaurs that helped them become more successful during the first 30 million years of their history, but this isn’t true,” said Steve Brusatte, a researcher at Columbia University in New York and co-author of the …