Dinos Survived in the Arctic

Interesting. The newser summary pretty much says it all. It is surprising to me that dinosaurs were living and thriving north of 70 degrees latitude and with near freezing winter temperatures. The warm-bloodedness and feathers may have helped ;-) Reply

Probably nothing gets me worked up more than these unvarnished headlines and statements by people that spend their professional careers guessing. The fact that they're scientists means little; intelligent, trained doctors spend their time 'guessing' and 'treating' every day with still a huge majority of the ills of mankind listed in the Mao Clinic's medical dictionary completely incurable and still a mystery to them... and these problems are right in front of them! They can touch them! So we have scientists telling us what happened in a world that was no doubt completely different, too long ago for any of them and unreliable carbon dating to pronounce statements of truth or accuracy. I don't complain in that they are trying and studying... but I find any theory or guess absolutely repugnant when it is stated in factual overtones. This is probably the single worst disservice we've committed against our youth and their perception of what is real and what is fact... and we start off when they are most vulnerable with Santa Claus. Oh the proud soothsayers would cry foul and make the usual claims that they at least try, and there are reasons to know and do I have better answers? Not my point... Reply

ya lost me on that one TC, couldn't follow...........anyhow..the "bloodedness" of the dino's has been back and forth for a while...some say warm, some say cold....but not taken into account, is the possibility of continental drift...(the climate didn't change the land moved?), or possibly a warmer early earth.....or maybe the dino's were adaptable to the extremes like the penguins????? Reply