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

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Bois" <jbois@umd5.umd.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: "Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit Earth..."

> 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.

Well, most birds seem to have gone extinct. :^) This scenario also supports
the scenario (erm... uh... :-] ) that birds survived only in/around
Antarctica.