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Nudding@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I wonder if you could see the meteor in the sky approaching in the days and hours leading up it.
Fun fact: I heard that the meteor was not actually what killed them off, but rather even before that, changes in the atmosphere had already begun to make ginormous lizards a less viable solution.
Mammals were just so adaptable, that we adapted to the post-meteor changes, even as we had already been adapting to the before-meteor ones.
I am guessing that most, if not all, mass extinctions were a multi-cause issue.
Even so, one line of thinking along those lines is that the meteor did not in fact kill off the dinosaurs. It did manage to polish them off, but they were decreasing in prominence as mammals increased already. I doubt anyone could prove one way or another, but it’s a fascinating thought to ponder b/c if true, that would mean that the meteor was not the primary cause of their extinction:-). Maybe it was their lack of adaptability? As in, they were fossils even when they were alive:-P.
Birds are, essentially, dinosaurs. Dinosaurs never died out, they just got smaller.
According to this you could: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFCbJmgeHmA
Runs through the whole process and is an interesting watch.
Fuck yeah thanks. Don’t know how I missed this lol.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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ivanafterall@kbin.social 7 months ago
Arguably the bleakest TV show of all-time, based solely on the ending.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There were always hints that the lighthearted sitcom was actually darker than it seemed, but the ending, my god… how many kids were traumatized by that? Lots of kids watched Dinosaurs.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 7 months ago
As an adult, It makes me so happy that they "went there" though. But I also still remember being sad. The pan away to the snowy, doomed landscape. Man.
Had to watch it again.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The way we’re going, it’s prescient.