Re: "Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit Earth..."

[John Bois <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Brian Lauret wrote:

> >MKIRKALDY@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > , and only those organisms already sheltered in burrows or in water were
> >left alive." (SNIP)
> >
> I don't think neornithine birds were either living in burrows or spending
> their life completely submerged..

The authors concede some difficulty here.  However, this fatal flaw for
them only "muddies the hypothesis".  Also, to make the hypothesis work
for water birds, they propose that feathers were singed by IR radiation
making it possible for down feathers to absorb water.  Thus cooled, the
bird finds cover under convienient rock ledges until more halcyon
Cenozoic days eventuate.