Re: Subterranean strategies

["Scott P. Smith" <scott@scott-smith.com>]

Adult animals are very tough.  I think the weak point is the reproductive
process.  Look at modern frog extinction: it is not the adults that are
dying, it is their inability to reproduce that is causing their numbers to
diminish.  I think the reproduction process is the key to figuring out why
certain groups became extinct.

Scott Smith
Software Developer, Self-Proclaimed Philosopher

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Britton" <abritton@wmi.com.au>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: Subterranean strategies


> I can't believe that eggs, that incubate in fairly specific conditions for
> say 90 days (fairly typical modern example) would be able to survive the
> catastrophic conditions that are being implied, when long-lived reptiles
> that can go for months without food, could not.
>
> Adam
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