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Why is the theory about the mammals eating dinosaur eggs not as strong as the theory of the dinosaurs meteorite extinction theory?
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The main reason is that many different organisms went extinct along with the dinosaurs, both on land and in the sea. In all, about 65% of all species on Earth went extinct. Furthermore, many groups of organism disappear from the fossil record very suddenly. This evidence suggests that a cataclysmic event devastated numerous ecosystems around the world.
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What was the positive result of the dinosaur extinction?
The extinction of the dinosaurs is one of the many events that allowed humans to evolve. After the dinosaurs died out, mammals began to occupy the world they left behind. Mammals grew and diversified, spreading throughout the Earth, and eventually giving rise to humans.
Did early mammals cause the extinction of dinosaurs?
No. By the time the dinosaurs went extinct mammals still played a relatively minor role ecologically. It is generally accepted that an asteroid or comet struck the earth, causing ecosystems to collapse worldwide and resulting the extinction of many groups of animals including the dinosaurs.
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.
Did dinosaurs evolve into birds before or after a meteor killed all the dinosaurs?
Birds evolved in the late Jurassic Period about 150 to 145 million years ago. This was about 90 to 95 million years before the asteroid impact that marked the K-T extinction event.Just a sub note that most scientist recognise that birds are a specialised branch of the therapod dinosaur. Birds are dinosaurs in the same way cats are mammals.
What era did the first dinosaur appear in?
The first dinosaurs lived in the beginning of the Mesozoic Era (or the Age of Reptiles). Birds were amazingly discovered to be dinosaurs so dinosaurs were also alive in the Cenozoic (that's our time-the Age of Mammals) to today.
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 was the positive result of the dinosaur extinction?
The extinction of the dinosaurs is one of the many events that allowed humans to evolve. After the dinosaurs died out, mammals began to occupy the world they left behind. Mammals grew and diversified, spreading throughout the Earth, and eventually giving rise to humans.
What did the extinction of dinosaurs lead to?
The evolution of mammals
What is mammal competition?
Mammal competition is a theory about the extinction of the dinosaurs. It says that mammals used up all of the dinosaur's resources, and then the dinosaurs died because they didn't have the food, space, and resources they needed to survive.
Are dinosaur birds mammals?
Birds are now classed as dinosaurs, but most dinosaurs were not birds. Neither dinosaurs nor birds are mammals.
What did the verociraptor dinosaur eat?
Small mammals or herbivorous dinosaurs
What dinosaur is related to a rabbit?
No dinosaur is related to a rabbit. Rabbits are mammals and have no connection wit dinosaurs.
Did early mammals cause the extinction of dinosaurs?
No. By the time the dinosaurs went extinct mammals still played a relatively minor role ecologically. It is generally accepted that an asteroid or comet struck the earth, causing ecosystems to collapse worldwide and resulting the extinction of many groups of animals including the dinosaurs.
How many dinsaurus are mammals?
No dinosaurs were mammals, but reptiles. "dinosaur" means "terrible lizard." Though there may be a link between dinosaurs and modern birds.
What dinosaur did the blue whale come from?
Non. Whales are mammals and did not come from dinosaurs.
Was a saber-toothed tiger a dinosaur?
No, dinosaurs were reptiles and saber-toothed tigers were mammals.
Is their a dinosaur monkey?
their is talking monkeys in the plain of Urass in Africa
