Re: South Dakota fossil yields new dinosaur species

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Eric Allen wrote:
> > Discovery of the flat-headed member of the
> > pachycephalosaur family changes 
> > the view of dinosaur history during the final days
> > of the Cretaceous Period 
> > 66 million years ago, showing that family trees were
> > still evolving even as 
> > the entire dinosaur world was about to go extinct,
> > the Children's Museum of 
> > Indianapolis said in announcing the find.
> 
> So dinosaurs continued to diversify and evolve right
> up to when they went extinct...  Where's the surprise
> in that?

It would argue against notions that populations were afflicted with
disease or some other debilitant such that the Big One pushed them
over the edge.