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Birds were the only group of dinosaurs that survived the K-T extinction event.
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How did the triassic-jurassic extinction event create diversification in dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs first appeared in the middle of the Triassic period. The extinction during the Triassic-Jurassic periods allowed dinosaurs to grow to mammoth proportions.
What does KT mass extinction mean?
The mass extinction that is believed to have eliminated larger dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Smaller dinosours survived, their descendants are today's reptiles. The mass extinction is believed to have been caused by an asteroid that collided with Earth. For more information, read the Wikipedia article on "Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event", or search for this term on your favorite search engine.
What is the name for the modern era which began approximtely 65 million years ago with the mass extinction of the dinosaurs?
The Cretaceous period ended with the extinction of the dinosaurs. The period that followed the mass extinction was called the Paleocene. This was a time of the mammals.
How do you use mass extinction in a sentence?
The mass extinction of dinosaurs were caused volcanoes that cause global warming with their toxic gases, therefore, killing the plants, starving the plant eating dinosaurs to death, and with no more plant eating dinosaurs, the meat eating dinosaurs died, too.
Element traced to the extinction of the dinosaurs?
The KT boundary has a spike in Iridium concentrations.
What survived the extinction event of the dinosaurs-?
Avian dinosaurs survived the extinction event of the dinosaurs.
What dinosaurs survived?
The only dinosaurs to have survived the K-T extinction event are birds.
Is there a chance that the dinosaurs are alive still?
The dinosaurs are technically alive anyway since birds are dinosaurs. There is currently no evidence that any non-avian dinosaurs have survived past the mass extinction around 65million years ago.
What dinosaur turn into?
One group of dinosaurs evolved into birds. Those were the only ones to have survived the K-T extinction event.
Can dinosaurs be pets?
Technically yes. While dinosaurs are generally regarded as extinct by the public, it has been found that birds are, in fact, the only dinosaurs to have survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction. So if you have a pet bird, you have a pet dinosaur.
Which of the following statements best describe the current scientific view of birds?
A group of feathered, endothermic dinosaurs that survived the Cretaceous mass extinction.
Why were the dinosaurs thought to go extinct?
They were thought to have gone extinction because they disappeared from the fossil record around 65 million years ago. It is now known that birds are the only dinosaurs to have survived.
What were four legged mammal-like animals that survived the extinction of dinosaurs?
many such as ambulocetes and a species of monkey(look up ambulocetes on google images).
Did the cretaceous or permian extinction cause dinosaurs to become extinct?
No, as there was no Cretaceous-Permian extinction. There was the Permian-Triassic extinction, which ocurred before the dinosaurs appeared. Non-avian dinosaurs were wiped out in the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction.
Are there any dinosaur left after their extinction?
All of the dinosaurs, large sea creatures andpterodactyls of 65 million years ago all died out. However, reptiles that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs, such as crocodiles and turtles, survived.
Is extinct a noun?
No it is an adjective, extinction is the noun. Dinosaurs are extinct. The extinction of dinosaurs happened a long time ago.
What living things happen in the Cretaceous period Did turtles and crocodiles become extinct .?
No, turtles,crocodiles, snakes and some plants survived the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.
