Some researchers even suspect that the dinosaurs were still diversifying at the time. Condamine and his colleagues analysed data related to dinosaur fossils and used the information to model diversity trends. They found a pattern of declining dinosaur diversity toward the end of the Cretaceous period, supporting the idea that dinosaurs were more diverse several million years before their extinction than they were just prior to the extinction event.
Were dinosaurs warm-blooded or cold-blooded? Scientists have conflicting opinions on this subject. Some paleontologists think that all dinosaurs were 'warm-blooded' in the same sense that modern birds and mammals are: that is, they had rapid metabolic rates. Other scientists think it unlikely that any dinosaur could have had a rapid metabolic rate.
Some scientists think that very big Did people and dinosaurs live at the same time? After the dinosaurs died out, nearly 65 million years passed before people appeared on Earth. However, small mammals including shrew-sized primates were alive at the time of the dinosaurs.
Many scientists who study dinosaurs vertebrate paleontologists now think that birds are direct descendants of one line of carnivorous dinosaurs, and Did all the dinosaurs live together, and at the same time? Dinosaur communities were separated by both time and geography. Different dinosaur species lived during each of these three periods. For example, the Jurassic dinosaur Stegosaurus had already been extinct Do any mass extinctions correlate with magnetic reversals?
There is no evidence of a correlation between mass extinctions and magnetic pole reversals. Can USGS photos of fossils be downloaded or viewed online? Fossil photos can also be viewed as published plates within many online USGS publications.
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As the author Mark Twain once said, reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Dinosaurs are alive and well in a chicken coop near you. In New Zealand, a region that was far from Chicxulub at the time of the impact, a full ecological suite of dinosaurs survived for another million years. Jeffrey Stilwell at Monash University in Australia and colleagues have found three herbivorous and two carnivorous species.
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