How Long Did The Dinosaurs Actually Survive After The Asteroid?

[@HumbleAshe]

The gradual decline of smaller pockets of dinosaurs post-asteroids is a sad prospect to try to picture; rare beasts just keeping on going, and persisting on in spite of their situation. A few images I remember from older documentaries still stuck with me: a recently hatched baby Alamosaurus wandering a bone graveyard of adults, and a lone raptor waiting under shelter from the snow, uncertain of its own future in the long winter. On the flip side at least, the fact that smaller creatures and plants still survived such a cataclysmic event and subsequent winter is always impressive to me.

[@friktogurg9242]

The meek shall inherit the earth

[@welcometothefilmclub5595]

Were those documentaries "The last day of the Dinosaurs" by FD ancient history and "Dinosaur Revolution"?

[@AnthonyDoesYouTube]

A majority of raptor species are actually much much smaller than what you see in Jurassic Park. And this is just my Personal theory, but I think a bit of them probably survived. Given that we see a lot of small lizards today

[@Unimportant_egg]

@@AnthonyDoesKZbin Small lizards are actually in an entirely different clade than dinosaurs and the surviving dinosaurs actually evolved into bird (Which makes birds reptiles which is pretty cool)

[@AnthonyDoesYouTube]

@Unimportant_egg yes but crocs, sharks, squid, plenty of other large megafauna also survived and thrived past the dinosaurs

[@ysndr]

"28x AK's bullet" is a measurement i never expected

[@triton62674]

Freedom units

[@Magikarp-4ever]

But yet exactly the metaphor I needed

[@wheeze_sanchez]

@@triton62674opposite

[@stephenderry9488]

They weren't even the last group of dinosaurs who couldn't handle the metric system.

[@steven4315]

Very useful because of course everyone knows the velocity of an AK's bullet.😀

[@goatsplitter]

As an American, I thank you for relating something to the speed of a bullet so that I can understand how fast things move.

[@VenatorPaleo]

AK-47’s are Russian, I prefer to measure in M1 Garand and M16 rounds

[@snydedon9636]

Superman

[@Sayoriplier]

@@VenatorPaleo I think they were referring to the guns = american stereotype

[@barto_e]

🦅

[@Syntex366]

@@VenatorPaleowe don’t care where the gun is made. We like guns equally here.

[@huiba1]

It's actually crazy how much our planet has had to endure, and it's crazy to think how many species lived before us. So cool

[@toreadoress]

I miss the trilobites😥 I wish they were still around

[@GleppaPigg]

Yo momma a trilobite Whoahohohohohooh caught in a bad romance🎶

[@stacie1595]

It gives me some kind of hope. Life finds a way. It always finds a way

[@MrCmon113]

Living through the K-Pg extinction event seems like a small inconvenience in comparison to living through the Great Dying.

[@itswizardtime63]

Since nobody knows what day the Dinosaurs died, I'll drink everyday in case one of these days is the anniversary

[@itswizardtime63]

​@@Randomaccount-l4q nuh uh

[@mimz1173]

@@Randomaccount-l4qdo you even know what a bot is

[@byzantineroman2407]

Bro, what are you talking about. We all know it was March 3rd

[@randomgamerdude98]

Apparently there was a study not too long ago where they found pollen in the bottom of a lake dating back to the asteroid impact. The pollen indicated that it was spring time when the asteroid hit

[@ProcyonDei]

Land Before Time: The Quest For Cirrhosis...

[@weilim10]

Sharks were wondering "WTF is going on up there?"

[@Forkinpikey]

Jellyfish were like:

[@ricksanchez9669]

​@@Forkinpikeyunder rated comment😂

[@ppgod6989]

Same with crocs

[@Brandon-br7tc]

@@ppgod6989 Crocs probably felt at least something let's be real.

[@ppgod6989]

@@Brandon-br7tc yeah I guess you're right , but all they had to do after that was shrink in size

[@laurencewinch-furness9450]

India was a long way from the impact site, and had a tropical climate that might have made it easier for non avian dinosaurs to pull through, had the Deccan traps not erupted. That's an interesting alternate history to consider, imagine a dinosaur dominated ecosystem continuing while mammals take over the rest of the world as in our timeline, only for the two worlds to meet when India finally collided with Asia

[@bonemarrow3439]

That's a crazy thought experiment!

[@Momcat_maggiefelinefan]

The continents weren’t where they are now when the asteroid hit. It was fairly soon after Pangaea broke up that the asteroid hit. The area where the impact happened is now the Yucatan peninsula, in Mexico. It moved there through plate tectonics. Earth looked nothing like it is now. And it’s still changing. Look at Iceland! That planet is being torn apart by plate tectonics. It’s a continuous and uncontrolled action. 🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@pastlife960]

I think that’s a scenario being worked on by Joschua Knuppe

[@ZachEarwood]

@@pastlife960 A book?

[@Devin_Stromgren]

It's possible a similar event MIGHT have actually happened in the real world, minus the continental collision. A few years back it was discovered that New Zealand is actually it's own continent that has mostly sunk below the ocean, but would have been at the surface during the Mesozoic. A few fossil teeth that MIGHT be dinosaur teeth have been recovered from the ocean floor there and were dated to the Eocene if I remember right. This now sunken continent would have been the best possible place for dinosaurs to survive, as it was pretty much on the opposite side of the planet from the meteor impact. Then of course being driven to extinction as the island continent sank.

[@MrSottho]

I need a dinosaur post-apocaliptic survival videogame right now, this stuff is fascinating.

[@oldrifter]

You could play Ark ASA on either Extinction or Gen 1. About as close as post apocalyptic dino based game afaik.

[@AFK_SLAYER]

Is the asteroid a playable character?

[@xanthippus9079]

I see some dinosaurs flying outside my window right now.

[@PolarBearFan24]

saw one too earlier

[@RibsawTheAllo858]

Although evolution split birds and dinosaurs, they are their close relatives, thecnicaly not a dinosaur

[@Liethen]

@@RibsawTheAllo858 False, birds are technically dinosaurs, just as mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians are all technically fish.

[@TonyJack74]

No you don't

[@TonyJack74]

@@Randomaccount-l4q says the person with a fake profile and no picture

[@CoolSs]

Still the most controversial patch change in the history of the game.

[@RoachChaddjr]

They shouldn't have sold out, the new devs came and completely changed the game

[@genio2509]

​@@RoachChaddjrYeah, humans were the worst thing they could add, it just made it all P2W

[@anticksss]

Getting rid of trilobites was the worst decision ever

[@CoolSs]

@@anticksss We really should have quit the game at that point.

[@Viilap]

Lol that

[@supertrike5893]

It's depressing thinking that non avian dinosaurs still endured the apocalypse thousands of years after the asteroid hit and were so close to surviving into the paleogene, but simply weren't lucky enough

[@supertrike5893]

@@Randomaccount-l4q attention seeker

[@SnubbyDaArtist]

@@Randomaccount-l4qattention seeker (the sequel)

[@AdhiniZulu]

The wholesome thing is that they at least endured for some time longer.

[@supertrike5893]

@@AdhiniZulu and that just makes it more depressing rather than wholesome

[@bryanshoemaker6120]

Just think of all the times we Homo sapiens nearly did not escape extinction.

[@Assocgarbage50]

0:13 very American unit of measure.

[@Ninjah013]

Ak is russian

[@Assocgarbage50]

@ even worse then. We will use a gun from metric land to do a measurement rather than the system itself. Insane.

[@lookoutforchris]

@@Assocgarbage50the US has been on the metric system longer than most countries have existed. We maintain and manage it… we are the metric system. You should already know this, firearms have been metric for ages.

[@MrAtown3057]

This thread is dumber than 1 million post

[@pepebeezon772]

Nyet tovarich

[@BoyBlunder66]

It's sad to think that on some day in the ancient past, the last lonely non-avian dinosaur drew its final breath, unable to comprehend the absolute destruction that decimated its world and changed it beyond recognition.

[@deeprollingriver52]

I don’t think the dinosaurs comprehended spiritual questions. “Oh, Sam, this sucks!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@HavianEla]

@@deeprollingriver52Living beings feel physical pain and do have emotions. Do you not get sad when your pet passes? Is it okay to inflict harm on animals, just because they aren’t human? Be for real now, it’s not silly to have compassion for another living creature’s suffering. It’s also okay to be emotionally indifferent to the suffering of a being you have never met. Neither is wrong, it’s just people having differing reactions as humans ARE different and unique as individuals.

[@irieite9666]

​@deeprollingriver52 Not deep thought like that but they can definitely feel pain, stress, depression etc. They would have known something had definitely gone catastrophically wrong in their world.

[@danielpye7738]

It happens to us all. Even stars will take their last breaths in time. On a personal level I am quite glad to be born human in this time and place.

[@dyto2287]

Be happy. If they did not go extinct due to the asteroid then they would still dominate our planet and we would not exist.

[@chewsdaym8]

It’s kinda sad to think about, but at one point, there was only a single dinosaur left on the entire planet. And I don’t mean birds, I mean what you think of as a dinosaur

[@mmarshfairc3]

Rest in piece last Dino

[@journeyman4814]

ironically surrounded by birds

[@Lrdarucard]

R.I.P. Denver

[@stephenderry9488]

Unless the last two non-avian dinosaurs had a suicide pact? Or tumbled off a cliff while fighting each other...

[@TheFlohRiDa]

@@stephenderry9488 2 Bros doing one last think together 😔

[@Baso-sama]

8:56 i was not ready for this amount of cuteness

[@garg4531]

Was so confused at first because I saw one dino attacking another before the clip showed up 🤣

[@Baso-sama]

@@garg4531 lmao yeah i meant the pygmy hippo baby, the timestamp might be half a second or a second off :D

[@Preston241]

@@garg4531lol same. Each to their own 😅

[@AncientWildTV]

@@garg4531 same lol the baby hippo made it funny

[@nacktheslayer9882]

baby hippos are ridiculously cute

[@Pyro-Moloch]

Nonsense. We all know that the dinosaurs survived into early homo sapiens era, when prehistoric humans built megalithic houses and drove primitive cars, using their own feet for acceleration. There is a great documentary on this, called "The Flintstones"

[@kudraabdulaziz3096]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@yawny-1735]

Nice steal

[@benderisgreat95able]

The biodiversity loss continued for 30,000 years after the impact, if that gives you any idea of how the more resilient species struggled after the downturn.

[@bigmike7385]

That’s an imaginary number.

[@carelgoodheir692]

@@bigmike7385 If benderlsgreat had put "might easily have" between the words "loss" and "continued" I'd maybe have given his post a thumbs up.

[@mitjabrglez9599]

@@bigmike7385 If you want the real number, it's 30,129 years, 42 days, 3 hours and 29 minutes.

[@T0pMan15]

Crocodiles and sharks be like this meteor is nothing

[@benderisgreat95able]

@@T0pMan15, sharks shrug off extinctions because they're smooth in every direction.

[@andreasherg]

Finally a video that is not just like "Birds are dinosaurs so they actually survived till today" but answering the question of how long dinosaurs that we associate as being dinosaurs actually survived.

[@lonestarranger833]

You don't associate birds with dinosaurs? That's odd.

[@TheFirstCurse1]

​@@lonestarranger833They can be associated with them as they evolved from them but 99% of people will never group them with Dinosaurs.

[@scotte2815]

And yet all you'll get is guesses and word salad

[@terryboland3816]

@lonestarranger833 Not as odd as your inability to read. American, are you?

[@ustanik9921]

​@@lonestarranger833not the same anymore, it's like associating humans with amphibians because we evolved from them

[@girlbuu9403]

"28 times greater than that of an AK-47 bullet" HEY, no Russian measurements. American only. "10 billion Hiroshimas" That's better.

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

How many exploding Coke cans is that?

[@jonharrison3114]

@@DKNguyen3.1415about 17

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

To be fair, Hiroshima is Japanese, and nobody has ever measured the energy equivalent of this city. American would be the energy equivalent of the (American made) nuclear bomb's explosion over Hiroshima.

[@matthiasnagorski8411]

​@@einundsiebenziger5488I bet you someone COULD figure out the energy potential of the city itself, though. Like, basically calculating how many calories were present in the area or whatever. I'm kinda high, so I don't know if that makes sense. Explains why I'm thinking about calories, though.

[@DonPatrono]

@@matthiasnagorski8411 a more sensible calculation would be the energy consumption of the city's power grid adding the absorption from the adjacent factories

[@paulgrove1407]

I'd never thought of that. Its actually chilling to imagine them trying to survive in a collapsing ecosystem.

[@thegeneral19]

Washington DC has the last known population of dinosaurs left.

[@madtabby66]

And they’re not going anywhere.

[@jpbaley2016]

Obviously, you’re not aware of all the retirement HOA’s up and down the east coast.

[@jasperpike242]

Ha ha

[@jacknewquist6213]

John the Triceratops hates attention man, why are bringing attention to him.

[@Michael-sb8jf]

The turtle takes offense

[@MrJoe99998]

I went to a site in Poland where the KPG boundary is preserved, and what's funny about the site is that you can find perfectly preserved Belemnites a good 30-50 centimetre above the boundary, even though it's a carbonate formation where the sedimentation was obviously much slower after the KPG event. It is possible these are redeposited, but the one I got from there is so prestinely preserved you can still see the imprints of blood vessels on the Belemnites shell. So this was likely a 'Dead clade walking'. one of the, if not The, last species of a clade that survived the extinction event, but eventually was out competed in the new world that followed.

[@pastlife960]

I think ammonites are confirmed to have limped into the earliest Paleogene, so it’s possible!

[@RobotDCLXVI]

Yeah. I get it, scientists are human too, and they have human psychology, which makes them seek social validation. They don't want to be seen as the loony scientist that thinks people rode dinosaurs, which is what normies imagine when you say dinosaurs survived for a half million years (or longer) after the extinction event, but I think there could be something in the Colorado paleontologists' study. How many times have scientists been told something is true and clung to their "scientific" dogma only to find out, "surprise! Turns out you have free mitochondria in your blood."

[@paulinagabrys8874]

W Polsce budowaliśmy z wapienia całe zamki, pałace i mury miejskie. I sporo z nich stoi do dziś a na fragmentach skał widać amonity. Rejon ten to Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska

[@alexsetterington3142]

A lot of preserved genetic material has now been recovered from dino fossil like collagen indicating some may have survived untill very recently. Many peer reviewed studies. Being ignored or suppressed. Doesn't help being promoted by religious conservatives. So prob need to check this info out properly.

[@0topon]

Where in Poland is the site located?

[@robsquared2]

RIP the dinosaur economy.

[@WiseandVegan]

Humans next! 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤

[@glorysake]

@@robsquared2 yes

[@joewoodchuck3824]

Dinonomics.

[@PersonausdemAll]

​@@WiseandVeganno!

[@bloqk16]

I recall as a kid in the US educational system many years ago, when the subject of dinosaurs was taught in class, it was at a time when paleontologists were puzzled why multiple dinosaur fossilized remains, of the same specie, were found clustered close together. It was years later when the asteroid theory was presented did it make sense of why those fossilized clusters got created.

[@A_Bottle-Of_Orange_Crush]

I have it on good authority that Littlefoot and friends are STILL singing songs and having fun in the Great Valley.

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

The Land Before Time 63 - Littlefoot's home hospice adventures

[@warlordofbritannia]

@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper Starring Jimmy Carter!

[@omfgitsfat]

The older I get the more I'm convinced that they all actually died in the first movie and the following movies are just him perpetually living as a child in dino heaven

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

@@omfgitsfat that's a solid theory...

[@Karl.Jayce-DE]

My childhood cartoon!!!!

[@PastaEngineer]

I must be quite old. I think i recall seeing a live one on tv as a kid. Was purple and used to sing and tell me he loved me.

[@monkeh86]

Ah yes, Barney 😂

[@madtabby66]

You think that makes you old? I used to do everything I could to stop seeing that thing. _ooh Barney’s in 30 minutes. Hey kids let’s watch a movie!_

[@YouBlockhead]

I heard Barney went extinct during the Thanksgiving Day Parade of 1997.

[@MrClawt]

You are not old, all the videos of that one were found with the fossils.

[@garyfrancis6193]

Yes that was Barneysaurus Rex.

[@stoogeonthaloose2749]

"Slowly dropped like flies" "Dropped like flies" means they died in quick succession.

[@varunramakrishnan7676]

Pretty oxymoronic

[@WiseandVegan]

Humans next! 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤

[@gilian2587]

I interpret it to mean en-mass.

[@graboidgang9077]

Yeah this guy's scripts are kinda ass ngl

[@rinzlr3554]

@@gilian2587a house fly will, on average, survive 15-30 days in your home. They have a very short life span

[@bijikedelai]

8:56 Moo Deng mentioned!! 🗣️🗣️

[@JuraassicLucas]

0:16 10 billion Hiroshima’s is insane

[@javiermoretti1825]

Hiroshimas. Stop adding an apostrophe unless it's possessive. It makes you look foolish.

[@snapper1]

Stop condescendingly pointing out minor grammatical errors that don't impact the comprehensibility of the sentence, it makes you appear pretentious rather than intelligent. ​@@javiermoretti1825

[@Seeming-lug9]

@@javiermoretti1825you’re one to talk 😭

[@cavalierliberty6838]

Ten billion hiroshimas.

[@nickwagner2190]

Coming soon again, thanks to this fraudulent war in Ukraine and the mindless leadership in the West, thinking anyone can win a nuclear war!

[@Dodgerzden]

So what happened to the humans that were living at the time? And don't tell me humans and dinosaurs didn't live at the same time. I urge you to watch the docuseries called "The Flintstones" that proves otherwise.

[@alenatieken6126]

U stupid bro 😅

[@beanjuice6012]

😂😂

[@orinorio1]

Humans went into caves and some went underground. They told the Dinos what was coming but they just got laugh at,

[@wickedishiccy7621]

Had me in the first half, won't lie lmao

[@bullymaguire8292]

You had me there for a second 😂

[@chloset.]

this made me feel really sad for all the dinos. imagine how scared they would've been :(

[@shoechew]

lol

[@greywolf7577]

@@shoechew Don't be mean.

[@patty109109]

@@greywolf7577exactly. Pretty awful for these creatures.

[@MeelisMatt]

if you wanna cheer yourself up think how many millions of years they got to be around.

[@monkeh86]

@@MeelisMattyes, just really bad timing for the ones who happened to exist at the time of the asteroid impact!

[@carealoo744]

Honestly, the fact that I live in a world where KZbin recommends me a video asking how long the dinosaurs lived after the asteroid impact, as literally uploaded by a channel titled extinct zoo, really puts a smile on my face

[@qwertyuiop1st]

It would not surprise me at all if there were several species of non-avian dinosaurs that prospered after the KT impact, but whose luck/adaptability ran out a few (hundred thousand? million?) years later.

[@noahmcconnell5560]

Hard to ponder maybe it was only thousands of years…

[@calvinware7957]

Million is probably impossible. At that point you'd see it not only in the fossil record but you'd likely have seen dinosaurs adapt into new post KT kinds of dinosaurs. For reference Neanderthals appear in the fossil record 800K years ago at the oldest theorized.

[@qwertyuiop1st]

@@calvinware7957 You are assuming that 'existing' means 'will be fossilized'. A species not appearing in the fossil record for several million years is not at all unusual. The image of the past that the fossil record provides is so low-resolution that 'absence of evidence' is not at all 'evidence of absence'.

[@calvinware7957]

@@qwertyuiop1st for dinosaurs to exist in enough number to sustain themselves for a million years you would eventually find a fossil.

[@qwertyuiop1st]

@@calvinware7957 Nope. That is not at all guaranteed. Only a very small percentage of creatures get fossilized. Once again, absence of evidence is NOT evidence of absence. It may convincingly persuade someone that it isn't there, but it is not evidence that a particular species is not there. "Likely" and "definitely" are two entirely different things.

[@tylercochell2253]

"The Road" but with dinosaurs. Hatchlings traveling through the post apocalypic world to get to the US Southwest could actually be a good story. Dark "Land Before Time".

[@rajarsi6438]

Perhaps come to understand where "the past" actually takes place.

[@nwahnerevar9398]

I mean that is basically the plot of The Land Before Time

[@rajarsi6438]

@@nwahnerevar9398 Time is eternal, so better quit your childish fantasies.

[@captainmappy3959]

@@rajarsi6438what the fuck is your problem

[@tfan2222]

@@rajarsi6438Are you a bot? Like, your response legitimately feels ai generated.

[@Deczkin]

that little triceratops caught me by surprise - always used to see big adult versions and this completely blew my mind

[@whiteabbyss]

baby triceratops was so frickin cute

[@TaliyahP]

It is utterly incomprehensible how chaotic the earth mustve been.

[@buttons9751]

Am I the only one losing my mind over the t-rex at 1:24 sittin down and havin a snack? It's so cute and I need to know I'm not alone on this.

[@questioningchoices8309]

You're definitely not

[@ppgod6989]

It's cute until you're the snack

[@ATMEIDAREYAIDOUBLEDAREYA]

It cracked me up so much lmao like it’s so goofy sitting like that with those little arms 😭

[@tahutoa]

He's like _Aaaaowmf_

[@findmeinthecarpet]

You are alone

[@lalehiandeity1649]

We need to remember that the fossil record gives us a very incomplete picture of Earth’s deep past. It’s very likely that a few populations of non-avian dinosaurs held out for a while and ultimately lost out to new competition.

[@martinharris5017]

Correct. The fossil record is a series of snapshots of catastrophes. What happens between such incidents remains a mystery.

[@IdiotPosterBoy]

​@@martinharris5017 and worse, it's extremely strongly biased towards lowland habitats with standing water. We will never know what the mountain fauna & flora looked like.

[@MrDael01]

You are mixing up the notions of "possible" and "likely". The fossil record is incomplete by definition but that doesn't mean everything we can imagine "likely" existed. Given the global effects on atmosphere and biosphere it's not likely at all that large dinosaurs survived the end of food availability for more than a year or so.

[@lalehiandeity1649]

@@MrDael01 You’re operating under the assumption that all non-avian dinosaurs were big. I say likely because things are rarely so clean cut black and white.

[@parapoliticos52]

life survived in the oceans and bellow the earth. I doubt any bird survived at all.

[@garg4531]

For the ammonoids, I remember hearing one video saying that they persisted for a good while after the extinction event, but slowly disappeared with the rise of certain sea mammals (which were able to prey them out of their shells in a way that marine reptiles couldn’t) - everywhere they arrived, the ammonites disappeared, with only the nautilus remaining in the one region they didn’t colonize If this is the case then it’s amazing for me to think that if things had been just a little different, they might still be around to this day (at least until humans come along and hunt them into extinction) Edit: According to a couple comments I’m confusing ammonoids with nautiloids, which I thought were the only surviving members of their lineage due to them both being shelled cephalopods, but I assume they’re actually separate lineages. Either way, the idea mentioned earlier is still interesting to think about; how if things had been different they might still be around, at least for a time

[@darkonyx6995]

You are probably mistaking ammonites with the decline of the nautilus itself, since ammonites went extinct alongside the dinosaurs.

[@malcontender6319]

"(at least until humans come along and hunt them into extinction" Self hate is as pathetic as it is ugly.

[@zippyparakeet1074]

@@malcontender6319 Yeah because humanity has had an excellent track record. Grow up.

[@GalvyTheTom]

As a prior commenter mentioned, you’re probably mistaking ammonoids for nautiloids (if I know what video you’re talking about, I watched it too; it was about the nautiloids). Ammonoids like Sphenodiscus did persist, but only for a very short time; it’s thought that the sheer volume of plankton that died in the extinction event killed off both their food source and their offspring, leaving their populations irreparably damaged and barely drifting onward for the earliest Paleocene.

[@garg4531]

@@malcontender6319 I’m just saying that it’s very likely. Ammonoids are very slow and so very easy for us to catch with nets, etc., then it’s a simple matter of using tools to pry them out of their shells, meaning as we started hunting them we’d have a huge impact on their population and they probably wouldn’t be able to adapt quickly enough before going extinct or at least suffer from a major decline in their numbers and diversity.

[@marias.wainwright3481]

I always look at pigeons with great reverence as they have their nose into a discarded McDonald's bag and think to myself.... man, you are descended from greatness

[@hishamseddiqee9528]

I love birds because they are so cute and tiny, like you can hold their small asses in your hands and they become these tiny little confused souls, completely unaware that their ancestors used to rule the earth in some incomprehensibly long time in the past

[@BoogeymanYT77]

I was there. It was rough and if I didn’t have my umbrella I would have gone with them.

[@slappy8941]

Holy crap, what an edgy and original comment! You must be the edgiest edgelord whoever edgeed edginess. 😂😂😂 Tell me, does it hurt to be so desperately edgy?

[@oiyile1971]

​@@slappy8941cringe.

[@tony_g6625]

​@@slappy8941how is op's comment edgy?

[@Vratty]

@@slappy8941 Tf? 😿

[@IcefloeProductions-qv2qg]

LMAO

[@akula9713]

I’ve always found it odd that the theropod body form has not reemerged. Larger toothed two legged creatures with long tails. They may well have survived for longer, but considering how rare fossils are, there might well be fossils buried deeper or even in the sea floors. We only see a small section of. Life in the fossil record.

[@brianfox771]

I think large flightless birds over the eons probably have effectively filled that niche and blocked other reptiles from evolving to fill it. Also, there is the barrier of current reptiles once again evolving luke-warm-bloodedness to find the theropod form advantageous then warm-bloodedness to make it really take off.

[@KarlJayce]

under antartica

[@Devin_Stromgren]

Terror birds are literally the theropod body plan reemerging, within theropods no less.

[@Player-pj9kt]

Terror birds

[@akula9713]

@@Player-pj9kt no long reptilian tail.

[@kh40yr]

Coelacanth was around BEFORE the dinosaurs, survived the Dino extinction, and still swims in the sea to this day. Thought to be extinct until one was caught in 1938. The REAL grandpa veteran of the planet.

[@WolfRamAndHart]

Correct. There's a beauty in the survivors DNA and effective design, that haven't changed much in 300 million years...crocodiles, dragonflies, horseshoe crabs, coelacanth, etc.

[@gamingwhilebroken2355]

Not the same species of coelacanth, but the order coelacanth. It’s a bit of a misconception that they are these static organisms that have remained unchanged for 100’s of millions of years. A lot of the time it’s that the body plan is just a really good one and there is little pressure for them to change their morphology. But often their biochemistry is changing at similar rates as other groups of organisms. They still need to evolve to keep up with the evolution of parasites, bacteria, viruses, and so on.

[@cuckmeister3193]

I will not fact check this because this fish has fed me many times in ARK SURVIVAL evolved

[@SD_Chosen]

My thing is if evolution exists, then why didn't they change? Along with a few other creatures that were Here with dinosaurs

[@Brandelwyn]

​@cuckmeister3193 that's funny because in real life they taste terrible

[@ExtinctAxe]

"Since nobody knows the exact day the dinosaurs went extinct, I’ll just raise a glass every day - one of these has to be the anniversary!"

[@TheGBZard]

I think that if non avian dinosaurs were able to survive it would likely be in the southern hemisphere, it was autumn for them at the time so they would already be preparing for winter. Antarctica seems the most likely to me as they would already be able to deal with long amounts of darkness.

[@pauls5745]

if not the conditions, then the food supply not enough for anything big. many more passed from starvation

[@TheGBZard]

Tbf I never did say anything about the bigger Dino’s, I was more so thinking about the smaller ones like small ornithischians and theropods

[@gringusgaming]

There is a cryptid theory that a species of dinosaurs survived in South America actually, but according to the theory they evolved into a tiny pygmy version

[@thenoobprincev2529]

​@@gringusgamingand the rest of the theory? What do they claim happening of that relic dwarf population, considering nothing like that existing right now there?

[@gringusgaming]

@@thenoobprincev2529 dude idk its a cryptid theory those usually are not true and most of the time when they are it isnt even a new species its just like some deformed coyote or something. A damn wampus beast is basically just an overweight mountain lion lolol

[@Rijuo]

Honestly, it doesn’t sound impossible for a small raptor to survive a good deal

[@Skeloperch]

Small generalists more than likely survived much longer. We know that's how birds survived. There ought to have been non-avian dinosaurs that filled that niche but weren't quite birds.

[@posticusmaximus1739]

Agreed. If a small furry flightless mammal could survive the impact, so could a feathery non avian Dino. The latter lost out to post-apocalyptic competition

[@Carlos-bz5oo]

Look, most birds died out in the KT event, including small sized groups like Enantiornithes. There's just no way a small non-avian dinosaur survive, since they're larger

[@GeoMeridium]

@@Carlos-bz5oo Dinosaurs were pretty diverse, and the chilling effect didn't affect every part of the world equally. Crocodilians weren't killed off by the Chicxulub Impact, so a few dinosaur species could have lasted in certain areas. Islands in equatorial regions located outside the Americas would have fared the best, since they experience the least temperature variation, thanks to the relatively constant angle of the sun's rays. We've seen this effect with modern climate change, where impacts so far have been less than a degree (celsius) in equatorial coastal regions, while high-latitude continental arctic regions have already warmed by over 5C. Around the time of the Chicxulub Impact, the mountainous islands north of Indian continent (now a part of the Himalayas), were insulated by hundreds of miles of deep ocean, were likely protected from the tsunami, and experienced a climate similar to Santa Barbara, California during the asteroid winter, even while equatorial continental regions in Africa and the Americas experienced frosts that would've killed most cold-blooded animals. On a more speculative note, only 800,000 years after the impact, the Deccan traps had a major super-volcanic eruption, so if that region were the last roaming ground of dinosaurs, such an eruption could easily have finished them off.

[@freddypedraza2066]

Probably would have shrunk into a reptile looking chicken

[@gibuz]

4:40 this image makes me lose it everytime

[@dmoney8602]

Calm down Virgin

[@SpaceBattleshipYamato-ps2jc]

They do be getting absolutely *LAUNCHED* tho fr

[@Max1234qwert]

ppl when the ps5 was revealed to have 69 terashits per megafart

[@ArsonHall]

Bro they got thrusted into to the air, fuckers couldn’t have seen it coming 💀

[@DrSpaceman42]

@@SpaceBattleshipYamato-ps2jc frfr 💀

[@DoubleWideSessions]

Asteroid: Hits earth Dinosaurs: “Be a lot cooler if you didn’t”

[@otavioguimaraes5798]

Actually it would be warmer

[@warlordofbritannia]

And then much cooler

[@Favio.]

Good old times. No internet, no smartphones, just dinosaurs livingn't the moment.

[@GODEYE270115]

I imagined some small theropod generalist would have been able to survive 33 thousand years post impact. Just can’t seem to understand why they didn’t bounce back when there was plenty of generalist dinosaurs that were well below the weight limit

[@Mortablunt]

Bears and cats. It’s unfair how good cats are. And they’ve won every matchup for 66 million years and counting. Dinosaurs, land crocs, hyaenodons, degenerate dinosaurs, entelodonts… No wonder they’re so arrogant. And bears are not only amazing generalists, but figured out parenting and intelligence needed to outwit and outadapt anything.

[@gtc239]

​@@Mortablunt wait what? Sorry buddy but cats nor bears existed in the earliest paleogene nor just after a fricking mass extinction.

[@GODEYE270115]

@@Mortablunt that has nothing to do with my comment, and cats never existed after a mass extinction. Nor would they be able to compete with theropods. The biggest cats barely tipped the scales at 1k lbs Midsized theropods dwarf that

[@Nemrai]

Probably mammals and others were better and faster at diversifying and so on than the dinosaurs that survived. But dinosaur survivors found their way into the niches that birds fill today.

[@Mortablunt]

@@GODEYE270115 You're the one who said "small theropod generalist" which would compete with bears and cats, and I explained WHY they'd lose to the mammals. Don't throw out your back with those goalposts!

[@SlothOfTheSea]

I wonder if any relict non-avian dinosaur populations survived a couple hundred thousand or even million years into the Paleocene… It’s unlikely, but fun to speculate nonetheless.

[@pauls5745]

yes, there could be pockets of land that somehow sheltered them, like if you were in a deep ravine, maybe you only got hot and dusty, then were able to squeak out a living

[@darkonyx6995]

It's not impossible, for example, Choristoderes survived up untill roughly 11 million years ago, yet not long ago it was believed that they went extinct alongside the non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

[@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434]

​@@pauls5745clearly the survivors are small sized generalist like some sort of troodontid or pachycephalosaur, yet because of some reason like very small founding population or other factors they wont bring another dynasty.

[@Devin_Stromgren]

A few years back it was discovered that New Zealand is actually it's own continent that has mostly sunk below the ocean, but would have been at the surface during the Mesozoic. A few fossil teeth that MIGHT be dinosaur teeth have been recovered from the ocean floor there and were dated to the Eocene if I remember right. This now sunken continent would have been the best possible place for dinosaurs to survive, as it was pretty much on the opposite side of the planet from the meteor impact. Then of course being driven to extinction as the island continent sank.

[@gremio3293]

Yeah wasnt there a population of whooly mammoths that survived on some island up to the time the pyramids were built? I imagine stuff like that happened with the dinosaurs too...imagine a mammal dominated world where on some island somewhere the last non avian dinosaurs lived, only some dozens left

[@londonjames14]

I like this guy who gives measurements in both and does not expect everyone uses metric.

[@retsaMinnavoiG]

The literal rest of the world (besides the US) uses metric AND it's super duper easy. 1mm = about width of toothpick 10mm = 1cm or about the width of your pinkie nail 100mm = 10cm or about the width of your hand 1,000mm = 100cm = 1m or about one big step 1,000m = 1km It takes about 10 minutes to learn the basics of metric.

[@TheAnticlinton]

It seems like the K-T extinction was far more devastating,almost completely wiping out entire orders of animals(archosauria, coleoidea, pan-testudines,holostei, sarcopterygii), while during the permian-triassic extinction it seemed like a lot more orders survived, and only orders on the decline like eurypterids or trilobites were finished off. Whats very wierd is how small generalist animals tend to survive mass extinctions, as this applies to synapsids during both the P-T and K-T extinctions, but when it comes to diapsids, mostly highly specialized species(birds, snakes, crocodiles) seemed to have survived, while most generalist diapsids, especially those belonging to archosauria were wiped out.

[@PoochieCollins]

i like pie

[@BNWOCHUD]

That's nuts

[@Mouse_Metal]

It is not weird. Highly specialized animals are dependent on a specific food source and if that source disappears they can´t find a new one. Generalist small animals can eat whatever they find and they don´t have to find a lot of food.

[@TheAnticlinton]

@Mouse_Metal I'm saying literally the opposite, that during the K-T extinction, highly specialized diapsids like aquatic birds or semi aquatic fish eaters survived more than generalist diapsids such as enanthiornithines or troodontids

[@BNWOCHUD]

@@TheAnticlinton That's NUTS

[@Vexxade]

“At speeds 28x greater than that of an AK-47 bullet.” Americans will use anything except the metric system lol

[@MsAelim]

I was looking for this comment, though more because it's so out of pocket

[@jyc313]

Don’t expect too much out of Americans lol.

[@Thlormby]

We don’t use the AK-47 so I don’t understand it

[@larrythorn4715]

Technically the AK is metric, so...

[@jyc313]

@@Thlormby use your brain a bit.

[@averagejoe455]

We need a post-apocalyptic survival game where you're a dinosaur during this time period.

[@avereth]

While not quite that, there is one. It's called Dino Run, and it is a flash game that came out on Newgrounds years ago and is both terrifying and thrilling. You have outrun the blast, getting DNA various ways to upgrade your stats to get faster, stronger, and more durable in order to escape.

[@discardmyfriends]

Imagine all the countless crazy gigantic creatures that may have once existed but there's no longer a trace of their remains or fossils.

[@buldrux217]

Thumbnail goes immensely hard

[@collinfridley8313]

This is a topic that is fascinating to consider. Thanks for putting this together!

[@Spnozilla]

The topic of the K-Pg mass extinction event is super interesting. Even though the main idea of what happened is obvious, it’s the details that make it mysterious fascinating. More importantly it was one of the most dramatic and important events in our own evolutionary history. It’s like a bitter sweet ending to an epic story. Fantastical animals that had the legacy of 165 million years behind them having their story come to an abrupt and violent end that was drawn out slowly but surly to really hammer it in. To quote the Walking with Dinosaurs book version, “from all their myriad forms, only the birds survive as testimony to the agility and beauty of this mighty dynasty”.

[@BartGielingh]

Still I don't believe they all died out. Looking at modern day birds, like austriches, casuaries, shoe billed storks etc.. makes me think they still exist.

[@bloqk16]

Likewise for the crocodiles and alligators.

[@larrydaniels6532]

All land animals died on that day of impact. The entire globe was on fire, the molten raining down of the ejectant reached every corner of the globe--- every twelve hours the opposite face of our globe would be subjected to the most horrific amount of flaming car-sized boulders entering our atmosphere at supersonic speeds ( simply everything that could burn -did burn) No living creature ( other then burrowing animals and mammals and sea creatures) takes a second breath of 1,000 degree air!

[@PersonausdemAll]

And me

[@datzfatz2368]

He says multiple times in the Video that hes talking about the non avian dinosaurs.

[@datzfatz2368]

​@@bloqk16these arent dinosaurs tho. They are archosaurs an relatives of the dinosaurs ancestors. But they very much survived the impact, thats true

[@patsfan8057]

Excellent video. I've often wondered if they survived past the Cretacious, and looked for articles and videos addressing that. Every other dinosaur documentary seems to believe that they didn't make it past the asteroid strike. This is the first I've found that addresses the possibility at length. Thanks again for pointing out the possibilities.

[@monddubb9792]

Meh.....truth is Galactus got tired of seeing them roaming earth and put all of them in a pocket dimension

[@ericvondell5157]

That's Hilarious 😂 🤔Better Theory: The Dinosaurs Went Extinct Because Doctor Who didn't Save 'Em!🤪😂😂😂😂😂 But, Then, Clara Oswald, popped up in her TARDIS (The One That looks like a 1950's Diner) and convinced The Doctor to, at least, Rescue Birds!😸😵‍💫 Thank You, Clara 🦅 🛸

[@daniel-it2lw]

bro i wish we could actually see what the planet looked like back them, if we ever invent a time machine the go pro footage is going to be sick

[@rakseiify]

0:33 we know about this one, how about the other extinction events shown in this graph??? those permian and triassic peaks seem interesting (just saying)

[@Laiton_et_Celluloid]

We actually know a lot about the other más extinctions, only that the cretacic one is the most popular. The permian was the worst of all, and the triassic was the one that set the conditions to let the dinosaurs rise, before that there were many other reptiles above them in the ecosystem

[@KarlJayce]

i always believed that they survived for a few thousand up to a million years after the impact.

[@larrydaniels6532]

You are wrong!!

[@kanadakid147]

I am a simple man. I see an extinct zoo and I click! Another super jnteresring topic about dinos!

[@suddieo1]

@@Randomaccount-l4q Bro just stop spamming bot at everyone who saw the video this early.

[@WormBurger]

​@@suddieo1It's cuz it's a bot. A bot bot.

[@kanadakid147]

Oddly enough, not a bot here haha just posted after seeing it super early and was half awake. Brain is less than steller at typing right after waking up haha

[@LostinMango]

I am a sheepish man

[@RibsawTheAllo858]

Dinosaurs when they cannot hide from the meteor: guess I'll die

[@AftabLokhandwala]

I'm really sorry to be that guy... But... Meteor.

[@pt3or5]

@@AftabLokhandwalahe meant mentor, some mentors like to take advantage of their protégés.

[@soulcost]

I love these videos, there's something interesting about stuff you'll never see again

[@lightbox617]

I understand that Mammoths were still walking around after the Pyramids were finished. Lions were living and thriving in Alexander's Mesopetania

[@monkeh86]

Except mammoth weren’t dinosaurs.

[@chombus2602]

​@@monkeh86 but you're a mammoth

[@monkeh86]

@@chombus2602 true

[@janlibourel7803]

Lions became extinct in Mesopotamia around the time of World War I, I always understood

[@larrydaniels6532]

We were talking about 65 million years ago?????

[@1962LIBBY]

Keith Richards said “ the Mesozoic was Mick n I most productive period, it was the right time “

[@joshadams8761]

Felt bad for the juvenile triceratops.

[@Sylbester_]

I feel bad for all of them 😢

[@joshadams8761]

@@Sylbester_ Agreed. So much suffering.

[@oneshothunter9877]

That's life. Just like nature today.

[@joshadams8761]

@@oneshothunter9877 Agreed. I was going to quote Buddha saying “life is suffering”, but r/Buddhism says that he never said exactly that and that the word he did use in the relevant context, “dukkha”, has no good English translation.

[@DanielWha]

imagine some day we find a 30 million year old dinosaur fossil and it alters our entire knowledge on dinosaurs

[@arrjay2410]

There could have been other pockets of dinosaur survivors. We just haven't found them, or not realized what we have found yet.

[@monkeh86]

Yes, some invincible super dinos that were able to burrow deep into the earths core, and are still living there today 😂

[@superdinotv3298]

@@monkeh86 I mean you’re obviously joking here, but you’d be suprise what evolution is capable of achieving.

[@monkeh86]

@@superdinotv3298 true, I look forward to the re-emergence of our invincible core dwelling dino overlords one day 🦖🦕

[@larrydaniels6532]

People like you are the ones perpetuating 'Bigfoot'.All dinosaurs died on this day!

[@retsaMinnavoiG]

@superdinotv3298 such as?

[@EyesOfByes]

What killed the Dinosaurs? The ICEAGE! Yes, it's the Arnold reference.

[@16xthedetail76]

CHILL! FROSTY! ALLOW ME TO BREAK THE ICE!

[@boardcertifiable]

Let's kick some ICE.

[@nickwagner2190]

Or... global warming!

[@paperpersona1243]

What killed the Dinosaurs? ME! *Bzzz Bzzz Bzzzzz*

[@Kroitk]

*ITS NOT A TUMOR*

[@anthonyhewitt9397]

This was great. Been looking for a in depth vieeo on this topic

[@sarryuken8786]

Nobody knows, and never will. Its mere speculation.

[@D1n0nlyD1v94]

This reminds me of a comment i read from a guy telling what a veteran told him, and the video that comment was on. After the bombs were dropped on japan there were people suffering hours or days til death. One story was people who were burning jumping into bodies of water without realizing the waters were beyond boiling and dying in agony.

[@alanmoss3603]

Well, I've seen footage of Raquel Welch fighting dinosaurs - absolute proof, I feel, of their survival!

[@ulyssees30y]

Most people on here have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about. I remember it clearly. My first movie alone at the movie theater. It was a double feature. In the second movie The Creature from the Black Lagoon crashed a pool party which was attended by a lot of girls in bikinis. I was three and a half. Kids can't do that these days. I just realized I may be a dinosaur.

[@CosmicCreeper99]

I cannot understate how happy seeing feathered birdlike dinosaurs makes me. Literally THIS is what they looked like! How else could they have evolved into what birds look like now if they just looked like big reptiles

[@yaruyaru]

How long haven't you been around in the Paleo-community? Feathered dinosaurs have been the "trend" for a while. From mid 2010s until now, or like that. Weird. Is this comment AI or something?

[@ashscott6068]

When I was a kid, it was 65 million years ago. Damn! Has it been a million years already? Where does the time go?

[@codyeaster290]

"When I was a kid, it was 65 million years ago" I think you're joking, because the oldest human verified only lived to be 122 years old.

[@zagg8687]

No, he really is that old, look him up on google​@@codyeaster290

[@President_Grover_Cleveland]

@@codyeaster290 woosh

[@mordirit8727]

@@codyeaster290 well duh, _obviously_ @ashcott6068 is still alive and commenting so they couldn't possibly have left a fossil. When they die we'll have a brand new record, and what a record it will be!

[@southsidese18]

That's exactly what I was thinking. It was 65 million. This is the first time I've seen an extra million added. Where did this guy get the extra million from?

[@lorenplays3548]

The image of the little dino sitting inside an empty carcass like it is a couch impacted me. Its like if it was its last resort (which it was) to hide from the cold and also to eat something.

[@hadorstapa]

6:20 So basically these archeologists think San Juan Basin is The Great Valley.

[@scottwilliams846]

I was about to say that.

[@Em4gdn1m]

6:11 Good to see Robert De Niro has a passion outside of acting.

[@craigthescott5074]

Yea now his passion is Trump derangement syndrome.

[@johnalexir7634]

Exactly what I thought when I saw that part!!

[@greenkoopa]

Quetzlcoatlus, therizinosaurus, Spinosaurus. My favorites

[@uchihasasukiya8137]

1:06 who is that spotty sauropod in South America 😂😂😂? That guy is huggggeee😂😂😂😂

[@coadymcgarry1878]

Looks Like a titanosauros

[@uchihasasukiya8137]

@@coadymcgarry1878 thanks bro, I just searched this Dino and it looks like it. I thought it might have been supersaurus but it's neck is too thin 😂. I must say, it's really fascinating that you were able to recognize this sauropod so easily, are you a big sauropod fan? 🙈

[@fshoaps]

he scares me

[@uchihasasukiya8137]

@@fshoaps that he does 🤣

[@nardeeze1741]

@@uchihasasukiya8137 dinosaurs are so cool

[@petersmythe6462]

Note that it heated *the upper atmosphere* to oven-like temperatures. It did not heat the entire atmosphere to oven-like temperatures. The mechanism for setting fires on the ground would've been thermal radiation from plasma in the mesosphere directly to the ground. A good cloud layer is more than enough to prevent that.

[@larrydaniels6532]

You are a fool, to believe this. The amount of ejectant blown into outer space was a staggering amount hat would have raised the temperature of the atmosphere to 1,000 degrees, it would have had molten chunks falling from the sky for weeks or months. With the rotation of the Earth each side of the globe was subjected to this rain every 12 hours. No animal takes a second breath of 1,000 degree air! The extinction was done in one day! Everything that could burn, did burn. The ash layer proves this fact.

[@christosvoskresye]

Yeah, there are "studies", which makes it sound a lot better than the honest description of "educated guesses". It's not like the fossil record is remotely close to being complete. I would honestly be surprised if all the non-avian dinosaurs were extinct 1000 years after the impact, which is, after all, just an instant in geological time. Maybe some survived in a situation analogous to the last mammoths and died out on an island. Maybe some small ones survived for millions of years, but we have just not found the fossils, and they were soon enough out-competed by mammals and birds.

[@Devin_Stromgren]

A few years back it was discovered that New Zealand is actually it's own continent that has mostly sunk below the ocean, but would have been at the surface during the Mesozoic. A few fossil teeth that MIGHT be dinosaur teeth have been recovered from the ocean floor there and were dated to the Eocene if I remember right. This now sunken continent would have been the best possible place for dinosaurs to survive, as it was pretty much on the opposite side of the planet from the meteor impact. Then of course being driven to extinction as the island continent sank.

[@christosvoskresye]

@@Devin_Stromgren It never sank all the way, which is why we still have the tuatara.

[@Devin_Stromgren]

@@christosvoskresye Yes, although it supposedly sank further than it is now before reversing direction.

[@christosvoskresye]

@@Devin_Stromgren Still, I don't think any surviving dinosaurs would have drowned. Maybe they would have run out of resources, but probably only if they were large -- but only smallish ones were likely to survive the KT extinction. But who knows? I could imagine some small generalist could have survived, but that would probably mean it would have an advantage over smaller mammals and birds and would have come to dominate the ecosystem -- which did not happen. So we would need a reason for the surviving generalist to die out. That could even be just bad luck; it's not always clear why one species thrives and a similar one dies out.

[@Devin_Stromgren]

@@christosvoskresye Depending on just how small New Zealand got, just the metabolic needs of being warm blooded could have been the end for any surviving dinosaurs there. If I recall correctly, all birds and mammals native to the island only arrived after the sinking reversed.

[@Stellectis2014]

WAIT, we're taught ocean life IS more sensitive to environmental changes but the survival of terrestrial dinosaurs has less evidence or less support? You would think the geology would favor land over sea animals. This was really great start to my morning. Thank you Captain.

[@Frommerman]

Oceangoing dinosaurs are far more likely to have been fossilized. They just need to die naturally anywhere with an unusually high sediment deposition rate so their bones last long enough to start mineralizing. On land they basically need to drown in a peat bog or be buried by a landslide, or their bones will be cracked open by scavengers for the marrow. Our best fossil of one land dinosaur species (I forget which one) actually comes from an ocean sedimentary rock. The hypothesis is it drowned in a river, was swept out to sea, floated for a few days/weaks due to bloating as it rotted, then sank in the deep ocean once it exploded from gas buildup. It landed upside down in mud which was rapidly covered, so now we have a perfect imprint of the spines and armor on its back as a fossil.

[@animedreamnetwork245]

Hmmm yes and no. The land has less biodiversity on it in general compared to the ocean. So if had a major climate change. Most of life on land would be gone but the ocean would still have double or triple the amount of life compared to land. You also have to think 2/3 of the earth is water not land and water itself acts a barrier similar to how the earth is to space. So basically you can say the ocean is a planet inside a planet.

[@bradenannala4085]

The world burning while nothing but the carnivorous species roaming around eating the carcasses and each other sounds like hell

[@DocReasonable]

It sure does when you put it that way.

[@violetlight1548]

I still kind of hope that somewhere, in the depths of the Amazon, for example, lives a tiny non-avian therapod or a little pterosaur that survived to the present, and we simply haven't noticed it. It's a very long shot, probably just wishful thinking, but it would be nice. It's equally nice to think some dinosaurs found a "Great Valley" to shelter in for at least a while after Asteroid Day.

[@friktogurg9242]

Hope so. I wish the same for some already declared extinct animals.

[@lucaslima9792]

Like jacu cigano bird??

[@violetlight1548]

@@lucaslima9792 similar, yes. We call it a Hoatzin bird in English. Thank you for teaching me its local name! It's the closest we have to those prehistoric birds today.

[@MrCmon113]

You can't exactly "shelter" from a lack of sun. The sheltering itself is the problem.

[@violetlight1548]

@@MrCmon113 some rather large animals, like crocodiles, sharks, etc. *did* make it through the K-T extinction. I'm just saying it would have been nice if even a single species of non-avian dinosaur could have done the same. Not saying it happened, but that it would have been nice if it had. The dinosaur-loving 8 year old in me would have been thrilled.

[@NotAShawn]

6:35 Littlefoot found the Great Valley. It's a matter of historical fact.

[@User_03693]

Make your own video.

[@NotAShawn]

@User_03693 what?

[@SuperChez100.]

0:12 the most American metric ever

[@Dyno_98]

I was surprised by the first half of the video, since dinosaur books always gave me the impression that dinosaurs still lasted for hundred, maybe thousands of years after the impact. The second half gave me some validation.

[@Jul-66]

-"What _really_ killed the dinosaurs?" -"MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!" (zap-zap-zap)

[@angryman2406]

You know that would make for a pretty interesting and potentially educational video game. You play as one of several types of non-avian dinos (from several different regions) who must survive in the aftermath of the impact. See how long you last!

[@amyb.6368]

With the win scenario being you evolve into a bird. :D

[@SpaceBattleshipYamato-ps2jc]

Or maybe a max difficulty scenario where you remain a non-avian Dino and see how long you can last for

[@avereth]

It's called Dino Run, and it is a flash game that came out on Newgrounds years ago and is both terrifying and thrilling. You have outrun the blast, getting DNA various ways to upgrade your stats to get faster, stronger, and more durable in order to escape.

[@ianhale4466]

Stg 5:07 would make a great video game plot

[@ahonnaga8854]

The world is cruel man. I feel sorry for the Dinosaurs especially those who starved or died tragically, painfully and slowly.

[@VictorianTimeTraveler]

No way! It's the freaking great valley where dinosaurs lived another half million years!

[@FULANODETAL]

until they die of starvation when they eated all the vegetation

[@Preston241]

Flashbacks to childhood trauma. But that movie slapped.

[@VictorianTimeTraveler]

@@Preston241 did something bad happen to you when you were a child around when you happened to see this movie? I am very sorry, if you want someone to talk to about it who will not judge go ahead and ask and I'll send you a telegram link.

[@larrydaniels6532]

Only uneducated idiots believe your nonsense.

[@redfly88ch]

36° Fahrenheit is not 20° Celsius, but more like 2...

[@NathanRFMuir]

Surprised I didn't see more comments correcting this

[@redfly88ch]

@@NathanRFMuir same, but to be fair I did not scroll through 2000 of them ...

[@Arboldenrocks]

Not the temperature, the change in temperature. 36 farenheit degrees is indeed equal to 20 celsius degrees. The video is saying the Earth got that much cooler than it had been, not that it was that temperature.

[@invisiblejaguar1]

Pretty cool to think a dwarf tyrannosurid might have evolved from T. rex. Even still, prey was probably too small to sustain such a beast, or it could have been a mix of factors that drove the hypothetical dinosaur to extinction. Either way, we might share this era with non-avian dinosaurs 😁

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4:42 this image has been memed to absolute hell I genuinely could not contain my laughter when it popped up 💀💀💀