Re: Why Did Mammals Survive the 'K/T Extinction'?

["Dora Smith" <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

The link is pretty useless if we aren't allowed to view it.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K and T Dykes" <ktdykes@arcor.de>
To: <rbox@crateandbarrel.com>
Cc: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: Why Did Mammals Survive the 'K/T Extinction'?


> <<It seems like Dr. Holtz' explanation is at least as good an explanation, 
> if not better, for why birds survived but large dinosaurs did not.>>
>
> There's a paper on KT-grilled non-birdy dinos available on-line, should it 
> be of interest, and it provides some consideration on why some birdies and 
> charming furry critters weren't among the meat being broiled or baked.  A 
> pdf can be conjured up from the abstract webpage.
>
> Robertson DS, McKenna MC, Owen BT, Hope S & Lillegraven JA, 2004, Survival 
> in the first hours of the Cenozoic, Geological Society of America 
> Bulletin, 116 (5/6), p.760-768.
> http://bulletin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/116/5-6/760