Dinos loss, was not mammals' gain.

[Jura <pristichampsus@yahoo.com>]

From: 
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/03/28/mammal.evolution.ap/index.html

Snippet:

The big dinosaur extinction of 65 million years ago
didn't produce a flurry of new species in the ancestry
of modern mammals after all, says a huge study that
challenges a long-standing theory.

Scientists who constructed a massive evolutionary
family tree for mammals found no sign of such a burst
of new species at that time among the ancestors of
present-day animals.

Only mammals with no modern-day descendants showed
that effect.

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So it seems that dinosaurs weren't keeping mammals
down afterall (well, at least in terms of species
diversity).

Time to look to the real culprit...the man. >:)

Jason

"I am impressed by the fact that we know less about many modern [reptile] types 
than we do of many fossil groups." - Alfred S. Romer


 
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