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Was the Ice Age the cause of the mass extinction of the Dinosaurs?
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∙ 11y ago
No. The dinosaurs (with the exception of birds) became extinct 65.5 million years ago. The first Ice Age began about 2 million years ago, which was 63 million years after the dinosaurs had died out.
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∙ 14y agoThe ice age is a period of time when the earth's temeature goes up and down. Some times it was hot and sometimes it was cold. aka global cooling.
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Did animals have fur during the dinosaur age?
Primitive mammals, with fur, did exist during the age of dinosaurs. It has sometimes been speculated that mammals caused or helped to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs by eating dinosaur eggs.
What is extinction and what are its causes?
Extinction is where no members of a species remain alive. It can be caused by; a new predator, new competion, new diseases or the animal is poorly adapted to an abrupt climate change. i.e, the mammoth and the end of the Ice Age. There are other factors such as a giant asteroid smashing in to earth or increasing volcanic activity, these normally cause mass-extinction i.e, the dinosaurs(or K.T extinction, because this caused the cretacous era to come to an end and start the tertiary era(and no I dont no why its a K))
Was there a mass extinction during the last ice age?
Many geologists consider what you call the "last ice age" to be the last glacial of the present Ice Age, with the ice retreat starting only about 10-12ka. There was no mass extinction. A good many species did migrate or disappear altogther as the ice retreated, but in no way was it a mass extinction.
Did the dinosaurs die off in the Triassic Period?
name three species of the Jurassic period dinosaurs whose length was measured at 30 feet or longer
What mass extinction was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs?
Some believe it was a natural occurring ice age. Others say it resulted from the impact of an asteroid, comet, or meteor that released enough debris into the atmosphere to trigger a "impact winter" that blocked sunlight from reaching the ground and prevented plants needing photosynthesis from growing resulting in the starvation of dinosaurs and other creatures. It could also have been the great flood that has been recorded all over the world and the dinosaurs never made it into Noahs ark :)
What event marked the end of the Mesozoic Ara and the beginning of the Cenozoic?
An asteroid impact
What happend in the period between dianosur extinction and the appearance of the first humans?
Scientists theorize an ice age or other global event the dinosaurs couldn't adapt to, which wiped them out.
Did the impact of a large meteorite cause the extinction of the dinosaurs?
Well, it was an awful long time between the extinction of the dinosaours (about 65 million years ago) until "we" showed up - about 50 thousand years ago. So I think you'd be safe to say their extinction didn't have any effect on us, per se.. However, whatever caused their extinction did lead to the emergence of other types of animals on the planet, mammals being one of them, who may not have prospered so well had they all been eaten by dinosaurs. Despite what some people might think, 'mankind' and 'dinosaurs' never walked the earth together. Except for crocodiles, and perhaps, sharks - they've been around A Long Time, and may be the only surviving link to the age of Reptiles.
What happened in the Paleozoic age?
The Paleozoic era was an age where Earth's diversity is believed to have greatly multiplied, with ocean animals coming out onto land. Massive forests with primitive plants dominated the earth's surface and dinosaurs possibly roamed around. The Paleozoic era ended with a mass extinction of many of these organisms and life on land was slow to recover.
What types of dinosaurs are on ice age?
there was no dinosaurs during the ice age
Why did mammals increase after the age of dinosaurs ended?
Throughout the Mesozoic era the roles mammals could take on was limited because many of those roles were already filled by dinosaurs. After the extinction event that competition was removed and the mammals could take on new roles.
When was Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs created?
Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs was created in 2003.
