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[QUOTE] [b]Doga wrote:[/b]

Interestingly, some dinousaurs survived in the forms of birds, the question is if they evolved to birds before the cataclysm and that is why survived or if they resist the catastrophe and then they started to evolve in order to endure in the new apocalyptic scenario.

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An interesting question, indeed.

Pterodactyls, for example, are from the Jurassic period, and the dinosaurs lived through the Cretaceous. We're talking roughly 100 million years here, which is plenty of time for major mutations and adaptations to occur.

Furthermore, if dinosaurs as we know it ceased to be after the Cretaceous, then it's pretty likely that the pterodactyls' evolution to birds happened during that time.

[QUOTE] [b]BETA215 wrote:[/b]

Learning astronomy in a Queen forum. What an educative forum!

It's incredible what are you saying Wizard.

It makes me think a lot...[/QUOTE]

Mission accomplished :-)

Evolution is a bit of a mind boggler, say, if we "did" have another 100 million years left on this planet, I wonder what things would look like then?

Evolution is happening all the time, I mean just go back about 400 years, people were a lot smaller, somebody at 6 foot tall was considered a giant, even though by today's standards there are millions of people over 6 foot tall.