Well then, maybe we are on a similar path for extinction ourselves. Maybe it is written in the cards and there is a group of freshly evolving "things" waiting in the wings to take our place on the land as we are driven back into the sea. Anyone want SCUBA lessons? ;) Quoting Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com>:
Most were out-competed by a freshly-evolved type of animal, small mammals; some evolved into birds. Mass-extinctions were not selective, they affected most all species to a greater or lesser extent, including sea-life and plants.
It didn't happen like Walt Disney's "Fantasia" depicted it, in all probability.
Then again, according to Gary Larson, it was smoking that killed the dinosaurs.
--- diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
What killed the dinosaurs?
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