polar dinosaurs

Post #27,924 by boxley 2/9/02 7:02:30 PM Reply	polar dinosaurs [link\|http://www.adn.com/front/story/760364p-811827c.html\|warm blooded?] ************************ They roamed opposite ends of the Earth -- duckbill hadrosaurs and horned pachyrhinosaurs on Alaska's North Slope and big-eyed, bipedal hypsilophodontids near what is now Melbourne, Australia. These dinosaur families lived on land masses crowding the poles and adapted to life far above the Arctic and Antarctic circles. They enduring icy temperatures and darkness, munching off-season ferns and horsetails beneath auroras north and south. ************************* read before it is moved thanx, bill "If you're half-evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil." Norman Mailer
Post #27,929 by wharris2 2/9/02 8:20:42 PM Reply	Or climate differences 70 million years ago, the climate was much different. Most of the work of government does not need to be done.
Post #27,976 by a6l6e6x 2/10/02 5:29:13 PM Reply	Reunite Gondwanaland! Seriously, [link\|http://www.earth.monash.edu.au/~greg/Gond.html\|look] the time the landamasses were together. Actually, it was [link\|http://www.historyoftheuniverse.com/cd250.html\|Pangaea.] No problem travelling on foot (2 or 4) to anywhere on land. I just like the name Gondwanaland. Alex "Of course, you realize this means war." -B. Bunny
Post #27,996 by ben_tilly 2/11/02 12:00:56 AM Reply	That will happen, with time A geology book I read in the mid-90s claimed that current theory at that point had a cycle of supercontinents forming, changing internal circulation patterns by their existence, breaking up, and then reforming on the opposite side of the world. This cycle has apparently happened several times so far, each time leaving memories and mountain ranges. Right now the breakup is still going on (particularly along the mid-Atlantic ridge and the African rift valley) and the site of the future wedding is the Pacific Ocean. (And the encircling stuff heading that way is the aptly named "ring of fire" as a result.) Cheers, Ben

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