Re: how to surive and prosper after Armageddon

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

well.... champsosaurs start out small (as hatchlings), and small crocs
are known insectivores...so I could see a mess of the juveniles
surviving into adulthood (during a stressed post-KT period) by simply
retaining the feeding strategies of youth, and probably breeding and
starving to death rapidly at full adult size BUT leaving progeny that
could also survive as small insectivores.

-Betty

dbensen wrote:
> 
> >>However, even this is not quite a perfect fit.  Champsosaurs survived, and
> as far as I know there are no know *small* champsosaurs.  Also, at least
> one large-sized crocodilian survived the extinction.<<
> 
> Well, there you could say that there were small crocs then, but they didn't
> fossilize, but I concede the point.


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