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

[Mickey Mortimer <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>]

Vlad Petnicki wrote-

> > > How come they were the only dinosaurs?
> > 
> > They were small. They weren't directly dependent on
> > green plant parts. They
> > were able to fly, allowing them to live off widely
> > dispersed food. This
> > sounds plausible, I think.
> 
> And - they had FEATHERS, which turned out to be 
> remarkably good insulation against cold - think of
> birds huddling together in a burrow, and you get an
> idea why they survived while the dinosaurs did not.

*cough* deinonychosaurs *cough* oviraptorosaurs *cough* segnosaurs ...

Mickey Mortimer