The 'Dino-Brexit': Ancient animals sparked Europe's first migration crisis [T-Rex-it]

Express UK ^ | Mon, Apr 25, 2016 | Sean Martin

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In the early Cretaceous period, between 125 and 120 million years ago, researchers discovered that dinosaurs began moving away from Europe.

A team of scientists from the University of Leeds created a computer model of the fossil record of dinosaurs to figure out their migration pattern up until their extinction 65 million years ago.

They found that there was a mass exodus of dinosaurs between 125 and 120m years ago while no new species were moving in.

Lead author of the study published in the Journal of Biogeography, Dr Alex Dunhill, of Leeds University, said: "This is a curious result that has no concrete explanation...

At the time, much of the Earth's land mass was connected as part of a supercontinent known as Pangaea, but it was beginning to separate due to tectonic activity, which was also confirmed by the study.

Dr Dunhill continued: "We presume that temporary land bridges formed due to changes in sea levels, temporarily reconnecting the continents.

"Such massive structures -- spanning, for example, from Indo-Madagascar to Australia -- may be hard to imagine.

"But over the timescales that we are talking about, which is in the order of tens of millions of years, it is perfectly feasible that plate tectonic activity gave rise to the right conditions for such land bridges to form."

[SunkenCiv]

It remains a mystery why they left [University of Leeds]

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[scottinoc]

Pangaea sucked. I don’t blame the dinosaurs. They got away from the one-world globalist crap that was going on even then. Thank you, tectonics!

[null and void]

Bloody Vikings!

[dfwgator]

[Ancesthntr]

There’s no mystery why they left - the placed just sucked, what with the kings and landed aristocracy preventing upward social mobility on the one hand, and the Socialist/Communist oppression and forced poverty on the other, who would WANT to live in that suckass continent? Geez, even the pea-brains figured that one out.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Like anyone else they came to America
seeking a better life.

[BipolarBob]

Build the Wall!! Keep out T-Rex! Do it for the chillun.

[captain_dave]

NigelFarageosaurus was one of the first to lead the DinoExit during the Youkip warming. Others soon followed

[sauropod]

Read

[reed13k]

Makes perfect sense if as a result of one of the asteroid hits the temperatures plummeted and they were seeking warmer climates as a result.

Assume that asteroid was in the Gulf of Mexico as shown on your map. The ash moves East/NE right over what is labeled Europe. Even the westward movement to NA makes sense to get out of the ash pathway.

[reed13k]

I’m being repressed! Look, look. - he’s repressing me!....

Flash backs to Monty Python’s search for the holy grail...

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