>>>toward extinction like the dinosaurs they are.
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>>Dinosaurs aren't extinct, they live on in birds. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html
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>Dear Mr Look-it-up. :-)
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>I don't have time to read the article at the moment and I find the idea very appealing. But, a year or 2 ago I seem to remember seeing a TV prog where they asserted that DNA or a certain feature (such as no. of toes, position of them, or something) suggests that birds are actually from a separate branch, similar to dinosaurs. I don't know if the article refutes this or not.
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>When you think about it, the Yucatan meteor practically fried the Earth but the wee reptiles that were turning into birds survived. How come?

'Wee' is the word. For some reason the big ones perished. The smaller ones, plus the mammals or proto-mammals that were nothing more than small animals, found enough to eat to survive. The huge monsters could not cope with climate changes (temperature, pollution, dying vegetation, etc.)

Of course, to keep this thread in its main track, you know that the real reason is that Noah did not take the big dinosaurs in to the ark before the flood.