(July 22, 2014 at 7:40 am)whateverist Wrote: Would that be vegetarian dino's or omnivorous ones? (I wonder which were more enlightened?)
Cretaceous Extinction Patterns
Quote:Omnivores, insectivores and carrion-eaters survived the extinction event, perhaps because of the increased availability of their food sources. At the end of the Cretaceous there seems to have been no purely herbivorous or carnivorous mammals. Mammals and birds that survived the extinction fed on insects, worms, and snails, which in turn fed on dead plant and animal matter. Scientists hypothesize that these organisms survived the collapse of plant-based food chains because they fed on detritus (non-living organic material).[23][24][25]
After the K–Pg extinction event, biodiversity required substantial time to recover, despite the existence of abundant vacant ecological niches.[23]
It's just as well there were omnivores etc at this time otherwise we wouldn't be here. Nature didn't make the mistake of putting all her eggs in the vegetarian basket.



