Description
It’s a palaeontologist’s dream: the chance to live in
a world where dinosaurs are not something to be dug out of the ground
but are living among us. It may sound far-fetched but dinosaurs were
actually rather unlucky. The meteorite impact that doomed them to
extinction was an event with a probability of millions to one. What if
the meteorite had missed?
Had dinosaurs survived,
the world today would be very different. If humans managed to survive
alongside them, we wouldn’t have the company of most, if not all, of the
mammals with which we are familiar today. Giraffes, elephants and other
mammals wouldn’t have had space to evolve.
Would
we be hunting Hadrosaurs instead of elk? Or farming Protoceratops
instead of pigs? Would dinosaurs be kept as pets? And could the brighter
dinosaurs have evolved into something humanoid?
Tags
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