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  1. Many of them probably could survive today. Dinosaurs ruled the world for 150 million years, and endured hot and cold spells, volcanic eruptions, and changing sea levels. There is nothing about today’s world that would be fatal to them.

  2. Aug 12, 2024 · Did all dinosaurs become extinct, killed when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago? Or could a few of them, somehow, have survived that mass extinction event – with their...

  3. Jun 21, 2023 · The dawn of dinosaurs began with the Permian mass extinction, also known as the Great Dying. This event, around 252 million years ago, killed more than 90 percent of life on Earth at the time.

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  4. Dec 6, 2019 · By looking at the skulls of 160 different dinosaurs that lived throughout the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods, the team were able to see how dinosaur teeth and bite force differed and how they converged. This gave a deep-time perspective of more than 100 million years to look at convergent evolution and to see if any trends held.

  5. Jan 25, 2017 · For dinosaurs, the end of the world began in fire. The space rock that stamped a Vermont-sized crater into the Earth 66 million years ago packed a powerful punch.

  6. The sea temperature averaged 37ºC, so even tropical seas today would be too cold for marine life of the time. But land dinosaurs would be quite comfortable with the climate of tropical and semi-tropical parts of the world. That is, until they all died of altitude sickness.

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  8. Sep 15, 2022 · “An ambitious dinosaur could have walked from very close to the south pole to the north pole in a lifetime,” explains Columbia University Paleontologist Paul Olsen. However, the supercontinent began to rift and splinter in the late Triassic about 230 million years ago.

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