if the massive extinction at the end of the mezoic which caused extinction of 90% of the species populating the earth at that time, it would have effect on a global scale. So if you're on a island like you suggested it wouldn't reallt matter because the effects of the blast would be inmageble (many, many times the hiroshima bomb!) Anton Eissens Philips Semiconductors bv Innovation & Engineering Group (IEG) phone Philips: 0599-632483 e-mail: anton.eissens@philips.com jodan99@uol.com.br@SMTP@usc.edu on 21-03-2000 15:53:57 Please respond to jodan99@uol.com.br@SMTP Sent by: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu To: dinosaur@usc.edu@SMTP cc: Subject: Extinction and other... Classification: Restricted About hibernation and burrowers. There are real proofs that all surviving primitive mammals hibernated? Arboreal proto-primates, like Purgatorius and relatives...they hibernated? It's like all mammals saying: "Oh, there's a meteor destroying our world! Let's hibernate!" But if it's true, there will be a pattern. Hibernating animals usually live on high latitudes. So, there would be survivors mainly in N North America, N Europe, S South America and Australia. Maybe. (And the polar dinosaurs from Australia?) Maybe I'm wrong, but I think studies about KT faunal transition come mainly from North America. There are other places where it can be studied? Where there wre fossil records enough to reach some conclusion? Lower Paleocene in Europe is almost unknown, the same for Africa, Australia, South Asia. Dinosaurs were worldwide. Would any kind of disaster destroy all them? I think some species of dinosaur would survived in some isolated island, like Madagascar. Madagascar has ever been a striking mystery to me. There's no fossil between Cretaceous and Pleistocene. So, we know nothing about it! Lemurs, tenrecs and viverrids are descendants of African island-hoppers, but there's no trace of a former fauna. India is alike. No fossil between Cretaceous and Miocene. Joao
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