Scylla Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 They may have survived if their food webs had not been degraded prior to the impact. http://www.universityherald.com/articles/10613/20140728/bad-luck-dinosaur-kingdom-edinburgh-asteroid-history.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted July 28, 2014 Author Share Posted July 28, 2014 (edited) Sorry for the typo in the title. It is hard to type on this phone. Edit: Got it Edited July 28, 2014 by Auspex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I subscribe to the 'final blow' idea, but also to the idea that the events directly weakening the dinosaurs' position were largely less dramatic; namely, the ascendancy of flowering plants and their development of 'chemical warfare'. The world in which dinosaurs rose to primacy had slowly ceased to exist, in ways that they failed to fully adapt to. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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