Most of us are familiar with the theory that dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago due to a meteorite that crashed into the earth and then caused an ice age. According to the study of a team that studies the extinction of dinosaurs, dinosaurs actually lived a long time ago.
According to the findings of the research, dinosaurs existed in the ice age before the ice age, which took place about 65 million years ago, and their extinction almost came to the point of extinction at that time.
Dinosaurs lived 202 million years ago
(A depiction of a feather-adapting dinosaur believed to have survived the pre-Jurassic ice age.)
Scientists have discovered a much more mysterious and less controversial extinction that preceded the theory that the dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago: the ice age 202 million years ago. The extinction had occurred, which wiped out the great reptiles that had ruled the planet until then, and apparently paved the way for the dinosaurs to take over.
So what caused this Triassic-Jurassic Extinction, and why did dinosaurs survive when other living things disappeared?
It is known that the Earth was generally hot and steamy during the Triassic Period before the first extinction. Similar conditions existed during the later Jurassic period, which ushered in the age of dinosaurs. The new research, however, turns the idea of heat-loving dinosaurs upside down.
(The Junggar Basin hills in China, where dinosaur footprints thought to have survived the Ice Age are found.)
New research reveals the first physical evidence that Triassic dinosaur species, a small group that was largely driven to the polar regions during the Triassic period, relied on regular freezing conditions there.
The indications obtained in the research are based on dinosaur footprints, along with strange rock fragments that may only have been preserved by the ice. The authors of the study note that at the time of the extinction, cold latitudes already occurring at the poles spread to lower latitudes, killing off the cold-blooded reptiles.
Adapted dinosaurs evolved, survived and reproduced in these conditions. The rest goes back to the Jurassic period as we know it. What are you thinking? Please do not forget to share your thoughts with us in the comments section.
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