Some Dinosaurs Survived the Asteroid Impact

[Verðandi]

New fossil evidence suggests some dinosaurs survived the impact that killed most of their brethren.

The great splat of an asteroid that might have wiped out the dinosaurs apparently didn't get all of them. New fossil evidence suggests some dinosaurs survived for up to half a million years after the impact in remote parts of New Mexico and Colorado.

The whole idea that a space rock destroyed the dinosaurs has become controversial in recent years. Many scientists now suspect other factors were involved, from increased volcanic activity to a changing climate. Either way, some 70 percent of life on Earth perished, and an asteroid impact almost surely played a role.

Scientists recently analyzed dinosaur bones found in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin. Based on detailed chemical investigations of the bones, and evidence for the age of the rocks in which they are found, the researchers think some dinosaurs outlived the crash that occurred 65 million years ago and stuck around for a while.

"This is a controversial conclusion, and many paleontologists will remain skeptical," said David Polly, one of the editors of the journal Palaeontologia Electronica, in which the research was published today.

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[Loki]

Actually, many dinosaurs survived ... the flying ones, i.e. birds. The ancestors of modern birds were dinosaurs. In fact, birds can be considered dinosaurs even today. The most significant change they have undergone through evolution, was the loss of teeth.

[Treffie]

It's quite surprising when you read Wiki's list of living fossils how many did survive - bless them!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil

[Lulletje Rozewater]

It's quite surprising when you read Wiki's list of living fossils how many did survive - bless them!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil

This is the Welwitschia 2000 year old
Out of season.


In season

The Namibia desert is soooo arid and hot,the beauty is the shifting dunes,they differ from day to day and from morning to evening too.
In Swakopmund a number of streets are made from salt.

[Tabiti]

Hmm, dragons? Maybe there is something true in Asian and European legends of giant lizards...

[Psychonaut]

Hmm, dragons? Maybe there is something true in Asian and European legends of giant lizards...

Dragons still exist! When my dad was stationed in Guam I remember seeing gigantic (four and five feet long) monitor lizards everywhere. They'd lay out on top of our car in the daytime and we'd have to scare them off to go anywhere.

[Loddfafner]

Some dinosaurs did survive. Here is proof: http://www.nsm88.org/