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RE: Dinosaur = extinct animal



On Sunday, July 11, 1999 9:38 AM, aj.gray [SMTP:aj.gray@mail.com] wrote:
> There ARE dinosaurs (or at least animals directly descended from
> them) alive today - over 8,000 different species of them! They're   
probably
> flying about outside your window as you read this.
>
> Technically, this means that mammals - with a mere 4,000 species -
> never did 'inherit the Earth' after the K/T. We're still living in the   
Age of
> the Dinosaurs!

If you put it that way, the Age of Invertebrates never even ended, as   
insects and other invertebrates still make up most of the living earth no   
matter how you look at it (number of species, number of individual   
animals, kilograms of living animal matter, etc), right...?

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Jarno Peschier


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