Articles for tag: Ancient Ecosystems, Cretaceous Period, Dinosaurs, Evolutionary Biology, extinction events, human survival, Jurassic period, Paleontology, prehistoric Earth, survival simulation

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Could Dinosaurs Have Survived If the Meteor Missed?

Suhail Ahmed

A single bad day 66 million years ago ended the age of dinosaurs, but what if that day never dawned? Paleontologists have long suspected that chance, not inevitability, sealed their fate, and new modeling gives that suspicion teeth. Picture the Late Cretaceous: lush forests, warm seas, and ecosystems stacked with giant herbivores and razor‑smart predators ...