Re: Subterranean K-T strategies (was "I know why...")

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/18/01 4:04:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
jodan99@uol.com.br writes:


> I'm also not convinced by the current theories of K-T extinctions. Many
> groups were killed: dinosaurs, pterosaurs, sea reptiles (with the exception
> of turtles), non-Neornithes birds, many kinds of non-Therian and Therian
> mammals, but another groups were saved: snakes, lizards, frogs, crocodiles,
> placentals, marsupials, etc


Well, *at least a few individuals from other groups* were saved.  The
difference between zero species surviving and one or two (or even ten)
species surviving is not that great.

--Nick P.