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

[Vlad Petnicki <bucketfoot-al@justice.com>]

You know, I always thought that there might be
something to the idea that the KT impact(s) were so
catastrophic that the large animals were wiped out
almost instantaneously.

To quote the Jeff Goldblum JP character "life will find
a way".  Had there been significant number of dinosaur
survivors of those first weeks, would not at least some
of them had "found a way" like the surviving critters
did?  Their size, and warm-bloodedness, appear to have
been the decisive factors in their extinction.

On Sat, 29 May 2004 09:56:54 -0700 (PDT), Vlad Petnicki
wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 29 May 2004 18:53:41 +0200, David Marjanovic
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Once more:
> > - most birds did die out;
> > - likewise, lots of mammals died out;
> 
> Which points out even more the catastrophic nature of
> the KT 'event'.
> 
> > - while lizards were heavily culled and turtles
didn't
> > exactly sail through
> > unscathed, many of them survived, and crocodiles
fared
> > even better, so that
> > alone can't be it;
> 
> *Sigh* Cold-blooded animals require much less food
> (crocs can go a year without eating), AND can go into
a
> state of a type of HIBERNATION UNDERGROUND.  THAT is
> the most logical reason as to why the cold-blooded
> animals fared much better in the aftermath of KT.
> 
> 
> > - most if not all small theropods of the time, not
> just
> > birds, had feathers.
> 
> See my previous post about those.
> 
> _________________________________________________
> FindLaw - Free Case Law, Jobs, Library, Community
> http://www.FindLaw.com
> Get your FREE @JUSTICE.COM email!
> http://mail.Justice.com

_________________________________________________
FindLaw - Free Case Law, Jobs, Library, Community
http://www.FindLaw.com
Get your FREE @JUSTICE.COM email!
http://mail.Justice.com