I bet so. :O)
Obviously Birds predate dinosaurs........................
Incoming....!!!!
Sure they did!
ML/NJ
YAWN.
More “settled ‘science’”.
It had to be a strong flier so that it could carry stacks of Florida provisional ballots.
Reminds me of cowbirds and egrets hanging around bovines
Bodega Bay. Tippi Hedren. Phone booth.
*ping*
I’m guessing they nested in burrows.
There are owls, parrots and some sea birds who do so today.
Burrow nesters are protected from the global fires and are used to lower oxygen levels that followed the Chicxulub impact.
A few species of birds, small mammals (burrow dwelling?) a hand full of reptiles (buried egg nesting?) managed to survive.
Here’s my take on the Chicxulube strike:
A Chicxulub-sized event rings the planet like a bell, any fault that is near its critical strain is apt to let loose.
Doctors and coroners have a term, coup contercoup, that means damage to the opposite side of the brain from where the skull was struck.
Imagine you are standing on the spot exactly on the opposite side from the strike. The shock waves race around the globe and come together (focus, if you will) right under your feet!
On a lower gravity bodies such as the moon, big impacts have delivered sufficient coup countercoup force to jet material off into space.
I don’t doubt that nearby magma would be squirted up through the resulting shattered bedrock.
Add to that the fact that Chicxulub was a shallow water strike and the surrounding sea formed a wall around the white hot crater as it attempted to flood in. It was like a 120 mile wide rocket nozzle jetting vaporized seawater and any entrained atmosphere into space. As the crater was quenched, the force of the boiling reduced, and the remaining flood of sea water and air steam-cleaned half the planet.
It was a bad day.
On land nothing larger than a house cat survived. I suspect all the surviving animals were burrow dwellers, animals already used to breathing lower oxygen content than their larger peers. The thinned atmosphere was a final insult to the bigger surface dwellers.
All birds evolved from feathered theropods.....
Yaah, right, this is surely a fact, they were there so we can count on it. Oh, they’re soooooo scientific!