The Coronavirus

[David Horn]

(12-26-2021, 07:09 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The dinosaurs (aside from the avian ones that have since evolved into the creatures who dominate the skies) were simply living at the wrong time to be alive for any large creature. Man would not have survived the Chixculub disaster. Small, burrowing creatures and animals born small in nests (turtles, alligators and crocodiles) that need little parental care once hatched survived even if their parents did not.

Yet even the smallest of the land dinosaurs perished, while equally small mammals managed to survive.  Perhaps it was their less than perfect stewardship of the eggs they laid, with the protobirds being better at that task, but it's unlikley we'll ever know for certain.  What is certain: they're gone and the mammals remain.