Re: Extinction (was Jurassic Intelligence)

[KAREN E RICHARDSON <K.E.Richardson@greenwich.ac.uk>]

> > > Well then, we should be sitting pretty - no animal I know if in the
> > > history of the Earth has had such a wide geographic distribution.
> > > Even most of our domestic animals fail to match our range: I think
> > > only the dog and *maybe* the cat are found *everywhere* humans are.
 
 
 Sorry for the delay in commenting I've been away and had alot of mail 
 to wade through.  With regards to wide geographic distributions - 
 what about BIRDS they are everywhere man is and more so, penguins in 
 the South Pole etc and the Arctic Tern which traverses the whole globe 
 annually.
 
 
 Karen Richardson
 A geologist in Exile!
 Earth Sciences Library
 University of Greenwich