I mean, not all dinosaurs died at once with the impact, right? Many died due to the consequences, maybe the babies were the first ones to die (cause weakest) and got eaten by predators and scavengers?
His point was that except for the obvious cases -eggs, stuck in womb-, we seemed to not know of baby dinosaurs. This was due to them being mistakenly classified as other species, as scientists had focused on differencies rather than similarities. Changing perspective hinted as possible links between species, which was confirmed by cutting through bones and skulls -some were spongious, which means heavily vascularised, which means they belonged to young dinosaurs still undergrowing growth.
So we now have less species, as some are in fact primitive stages of others, but said species have an ontogeny -succession of phases of development- that is more complete and makes sense.
I guess the "let's look at similarities instead of differences" was too left-wing for fragile Mike. Even though cutting through kid's skulls seem ok with him.
So we now have less species, as some are in fact primitive stages of others, but said species have an ontogeny -succession of phases of development- that is more complete and makes sense.
I guess the "let's look at similarities instead of differences" was too left-wing for fragile Mike. Even though cutting through kid's skulls seem ok with him.