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To: Junior
Miller's team ran an analysis that showed a temperature shift could theoretically have led to a preponderance of males. Other studies have shown that when there are too few females, eventually the population dies out.

Then one would expect that all reptilians would have died out, and not just dinosaurs.

3 posted on 04/21/2004 11:48:20 AM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
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To: dirtboy
I would have though so, too. Fortunately, the good doctors answered the question at the end of the piece:

But crocodiles and turtles had already evolved at the time of the great extinction 65 million years ago. How did they survive?

"These animals live at the intersection of aquatic and terrestrial environments, in estuarine waters and river beds, which might have afforded some protection against the more extreme effects of environmental change, hence giving them more time to adapt," the researchers wrote.

4 posted on 04/21/2004 11:50:13 AM PDT by Junior (Remember, you are unique, just like everyone else.)
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To: dirtboy
Then one would expect that all reptilians would have died out, and not just dinosaurs.

I'm assuming you didn't read the whole article:

But crocodiles and turtles had already evolved at the time of the great extinction 65 million years ago. How did they survive?

etc.

9 posted on 04/21/2004 11:54:41 AM PDT by JohnnyZ (Got some dirt on my shoulder -- could you brush it off for me?)
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