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To: TobagoJack who wrote (147472)	4/1/2019 1:51:14 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217588

So two takeaways 1- Life flourishes in climates much warmer than today 2- Evolution must happen a friggin' lot faster than we thought.. Looking at dogs where evolution is far more managed... hmmm! I wonder what humans may look like in 100 years.. if we still exist.. :))

To: TobagoJack who wrote (147472)	4/4/2019 3:14:26 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 217588

An alternate theory about the fate of the dinosaurs... The Nastiest Feud in Science theatlantic.com A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (147472)	4/9/2019 8:54:33 AM
From: dvdw©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217588

Thanks for the post enjoyed the narrative and will archive it at the Peak Oil Blog. DePalma has mischaracterized the events that created his Hell Creek deposits. Those were formed by more local events the culprits are very near and can be chosen from events 1 in North Dakota called Red Wing Impactor, 2 others in Canada, and 1 from Montana.The data bases for Impacts are chock for of error, mostly with respect to age and size, trusting those data makes us quackademics. There is a Yale Paleontolgist from the ND area Named Tyler (something or other) who had previously popularized these formations with his discoveries of petrified Dinos in or around the same area. A TV special was held on his findings within the last 10 years. The Gulf of Mexico event Chicxulub being attributed herein, sent water as far north as Missouri, not much farther. en.wikipedia.org

To: TobagoJack who wrote (147472)	4/9/2019 10:35:31 AM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217588

Fascinating. Thanks for posting it.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (147472)	10/24/2019 5:35:43 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217588

Another incredible discovery! The days after the dinosaurs died... Colorado Fossils Show How Mammals Raced to Fill Dinosaurs’ Void nytimes.com An unusually rich trove found in Colorado reveals the world in which our mammalian forebears evolved into larger creatures. Some 66 million years ago, mammals caught their lucky break. An asteroid crashed into what is now Chicxulub, Mexico, and set off a catastrophic chain of events that led to the annihilation of the non-avian dinosaurs. That day began their furry ascension to the top of a brave new world, the one from which our species would one day emerge. But little is known about the time period directly after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, or K-Pg event, because the fossil record is lacking. Now, a team of paleontologists has uncovered a trove of thousands of fossils in Colorado that provides an in-depth look at the first million years following the K-Pg mass extinction event. The finding provides insight into the interactions between animals, plants and climate that occurred in the earliest days of the age of mammals, and that allowed them to grow from the size of large rodents into diverse wildlife we might begin to recognize today.