On: The Day the Dinosaurs Died

[rukittenme]

Dinosaurs survived the extinction event as well[0]. Conditions may have been bad but not so bad that generalized forms couldn't survive.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_birds

[garmaine → rukittenme]

Sort of. The lineage that became birds had already split off from the lineages we typically think of as “dinosaur” in the popular consciousness, quite a long time before the KT event. Nothing like the dinosaur toys you played with as a kid survived. (But then, many of the ones you played with as a kid were probably from 50-100M years earlier anyway, with the notable exception of T-Rex).

[fhars → garmaine]

Yeah, always funny to think about the fact that tyrannosaurs are much closer to iphones than to stegosaurs.

[robkop → garmaine]

I would say that at least one dinosaur looking dinosaur (the crocodile) survived.

Although you could argue how much crocodile looks like a dinosaur. Personally they look pretty dinosaur-esque to me.

[pvg → robkop]

I think the difference is that birds are more dinosaurs than crocodiles are dinosaurs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avemetatarsalia

[garmaine → robkop]

They aren't dinosaurs though.