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Why Didn't Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Kill The Mammals too?

Gizmo j

Gizmo j

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I heard humans were like rats during the dinosaur days, but why didn't they die like the dinosaurs?
 
I should probably expand on my previous answer because it's late and I'm bored.

The tiny mammals were happy to eat the piles and piles fungus that took care of digesting the dead dinosaurs. That probably would lasted them a couple of years at least until plant life started to come back.

And one of the advantages of being tiny is that even when you chow down, you're talking maybe a half cup of kibble.

Also this probably explains the human love of mushrooms. I'm not saying it's a genetic "memory" but I'm also not saying it isn't.
 
Early mammals where smaller, thus ate less and lived in underground burrows. Underground they could survive the intense heat and fallout caused by the asteriod. They could also store food and wait until the plants came back.
 
Gizmo j said:
I heard humans were like rats during the dinosaur days, but why didn't they die like the dinosaurs?
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Not qualified on this topic but AFAIK Earth used to have a much more oxygen-rich atmosphere which favoured the larger animals. Asteroid hit resulted in huge amounts of crap being thrown into the atmosphere and the mix of oxygen was thrown off. Dinos mostly couldn't handle it. Anything that survived evidently managed to adapt.
 
The Noah's ark fable has been misinterpreted by people with little reasoning power. The truth is that it was a spaceship, and everything from a blue whale to a tape worm were evacuated and safely kept in stasis until it was safe to bring them back to the earth.
 
MtnMan said:
The Noah's ark fable has been misinterpreted by people with little reasoning power. The truth is that it was a spaceship, and everything from a blue whale to a tape worm were evacuated and safely kept in stasis until it was safe to bring them back to the earth.
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As documented in the fact-based song, "Come Sail Away".
 
MtnMan said:
The Noah's ark fable has been misinterpreted by people with little reasoning power. The truth is that it was a spaceship, and everything from a blue whale to a tape worm were evacuated and safely kept in stasis until it was safe to bring them back to the earth.
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What reasoning power made you feel this post was a contribution to this thread?
 
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