My Pet Dinasaur : Had not the asteroid hit the earth and brought the ice age!
The extinction of the dinosaurs was most probably caused by an asteroid hitting the Earth - but what would have happened if the giant space rock had missed?
“We wouldn’t have the modern animals that we’re used to. Giraffes and elephants and so on; they just wouldn’t have evolved because dinosaurs would still be here,” says Professor Currie.
Instead of elephants, there would be large plant-devouring sauropods. In place of lions on the plains of Africa would be tyrannosaurs.
Like a Steven Spielberg’s movie alive! Cool isn’t it?
Adaptable dinosaurs had it all covered. Dinosaurs could have comfortably colonized many environments, from polar conditions to regions of rivers and forests, jungle and deserts.” It all started with an asteroid that hit our planet earth, brought in the ice age.
Doom for the dinosaur! If the asteroid had missed, there probably wouldn’t be humans here today either to find out how it would have turned out. “The impact that ended the golden age of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago made for an extremely bad dinosaur day but it was also a very good mammal day.”
Check out the article on BBC that stirred these thoughts.
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