• How many Dino species was there over 200 million years?

    From Popping Mad@rainbow@colition.gov to sci.bio.paleontology on Sun Dec 28 01:01:21 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.bio.paleontology

    So here this is being explored by this vidoe - and I kind of chuckled

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlmgovfWpw

    There Are Way More Dinosaurs Than You Think

    This doesn't even cross my mind. There is over 10,000 species of birds
    now... and almost none would survive fossilization events. And there is
    only a few thousand species, tops, of know Dinosaurs. It doesn't even
    scale. There is likely almost 150 million species of Dinosaurs over
    that long period from the Triassic to the Cretaceous.

    The idea that we even have a reasonable idea of how life was even at the
    KT boundary I find hard to believe. It is amazing how much we know.
    Animals constantly do astonishing things we would never expect just from skeleton structures.... Even a species we know fairly well, like a
    T-Rex.. I doubt we know nearly anything of their abilities or functions.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zxJPQlFFTI
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