How did life survive after the catastrophie that killed off the dinosaurs? My guess is that whatever happened it severly shortened the food supply( plants and what not) and bigger animals (dinosaurs etc.) Need a bigger food supply so only small animals that don't eat as much were able to live. I was just wondering what some of the theories are to this.
You are right in that the small size and therefore smaller appetite of mammals helped them survive. In addition many mammals of the time were burrowing or semi-aquatic which helped them avoid the drastic environmental changes.
Our size deffinetly helped.. Our level of intelligence of our ancient ancestors would have also played a drastic role.. My guess is that ancient humans took refuge in caves and underground shelters.. and possibly survived off of whatever would've been left after the apocalypse.. They probably ate any plants available as well as dinosaur carcasses.. Who knows
Well we can eat both plants and animals so I guess we also had a bigger variaty to choose from instead of having only some plants. Also all those giant dead animals were a giant feast for us I suppose but your right there's no way to know for sure
[quote name='"Led Zepp"']Our size deffinetly helped.. Our level of intelligence of our ancient ancestors would have also played a drastic role.. My guess is that ancient humans took refuge in caves and underground shelters.. and possibly survived off of whatever would've been left after the apocalypse.. They probably ate any plants available as well as dinosaur carcasses.. Who knows [/quote] No humans or cavemen or anything weren't around when the dinosaurs got killed off, we came around like 60 million years after that
It's hard to say without any type of records.. You are assuming because who is to say that there wasn't? Were you alive all that time ago? lol
Have you ever heard of fossils or DNA? There is plenty of evidence that there were no humans living 65 mya. We have fossils of small rodent-like mammals that lived during that time period which we can trace extant mammalian species to, including humans. Not surprisingly there are no human fossils anywhere near that time period. Using the "were you alive there" question is a ridiculous way to view history. I wasn't alive during the Roman Empire but I'm sure that it did exist because there is tons of evidence to support that idea.
[quote name='"DjSmokeBowls"']Have you ever heard of fossils or DNA? There is plenty of evidence that there were no humans living 65 mya. We have fossils of small rodent-like mammals that lived during that time period which we can trace extant mammalian species to, including humans. Not surprisingly there are no human fossils anywhere near that time period. Using the "were you alive there" question is a ridiculous way to view history. I wasn't alive during the Roman Empire but I'm sure that it did exist because there is tons of evidence to support that idea.[/quote] I second this opinion. Deffinitly plenty of evidence to prove this theory. I agree with you
DJsmokebowls is right there's a lot of evidence of no humans but no one can say its a fact unless you have a time machine. Whatever is backed up with the most evidence is usually what we go with.
Forgot to mention this aswell. Alligators, sharks, and I think turtles have been around longer then us because they were semi aquatic or compley aquatic.sharks were deep underwater not caring what was going on up on land. Alligators had a food supply in the water too and idk how but turtles are here to so good for them.
[quote name='"Led Zepp"'] It's hard to say without any type of records.. You are assuming because who is to say that there wasn't? Were you alive all that time ago? lol[/quote] There's plenty of records and evidence indicating we were no where near being around back then, what are you talkin about mang?
From the ground up... Species that grouped and formed symbiotic relationships with the decomposers like fungi were greatly rewarded.
[quote name='"ImurderBlunts"']How did life survive after the catastrophie that killed off the dinosaurs? My guess is that whatever happened it severly shortened the food supply( plants and what not) and bigger animals (dinosaurs etc.) Need a bigger food supply so only small animals that don't eat as much were able to live. I was just wondering what some of the theories are to this.[/quote] The dinosaurs died because they were big. Its a simple as that.
[quote name='"Led Zepp"']Our size deffinetly helped.. Our level of intelligence of our ancient ancestors would have also played a drastic role.. My guess is that ancient humans took refuge in caves and underground shelters.. and possibly survived off of whatever would've been left after the apocalypse.. They probably ate any plants available as well as dinosaur carcasses.. Who knows [/quote] There were no humans at that time. When the dinosaurs were around there weren't even monkeys. We survived because we were tiny.rodents and were able to hide and didn't need much food
[quote name='"ImurderBlunts"']DJsmokebowls is right there's a lot of evidence of no humans but no one can say its a fact unless you have a time machine. Whatever is backed up with the most evidence is usually what we go with.[/quote] This is partially true. Its like saying of the ground is wet its possible that it didn't rain. I mean you didn't actually see the rain. There could have been some sort of gyser right? Then again the gyser would leave evidence