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Re: query about K-T extinction
From: "John W. Atwood, Computer Specialist, Bismarck, ND "<jwatwood@wrdma >
> On Wed, 31 May 1995 16:15:45 -0400
> Vicki Rosenzweig said:
> > I was wondering what the largest land animal known to
> > have survived the K-T extinction was. (I have a hunch,
> > which I haven't checked, that the largest animal to
> > survive the extinction was probably marine; does anyone
> > know if I'm right about this.)
>
> I'm not sure whether anything larger made it, but there were some
> good sized crocodilians that made it.
>
Nope, the larger crocs bought it. It was only the mid-sized ones
that survived. Still, they might qualify as the largest survivors.
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