95 million years ago -- the Chicxulub impact (which is mentioned in the article) was 30 million years later, but burrowing creatures, and those underwater, and few others, were better able to survive the K-T mass extinction, and those are the species which got through.
1 posted on
09/28/2009 7:59:28 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
2 posted on
09/28/2009 7:59:56 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
3 posted on
09/28/2009 8:00:39 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I should have been a marine biologist or an Paleontologists. It sounds like a very fun and interesting job.
8 posted on
09/28/2009 8:52:44 PM PDT by
Gator113
(Obamba, Reid, Pelosi, the socialist triad.)
To: SunkenCiv
This represents the first known CYA instance . It’s been replicated through the ages giving us Democrats and other Devonian survivors.
10 posted on
09/28/2009 9:07:57 PM PDT by
BIGLOOK
(Government needs a Keelhauling now and then.)
To: SunkenCiv
That’s what we are going to have to do when Obama’s no energy plan plays out.
11 posted on
09/28/2009 9:45:43 PM PDT by
DannyTN
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