Could one dinosaur have been alive even after the asteriod hit?

Answer 1

Crocadiles...

Supposing that an impact was the cause of the dinosaur's demise, it would not have been an imediate death.

An impact would have thrown dirt into the upper reaches of the atmosphere. The Sky would have been dark day gray for a long time, and the Earth would have grown cold for years...

Those animals that needed the most food would have died first, and in that order of sucession until the only survivors would have been the small scavengers. The dinosaurs that could feed on the starved carcasses of the dead.

And so the decendents of those survivors have had to continue to evolve to survive this colder and crueller Earth.

The would have needed to develop an insulating layer... Some will tell you the Birds evolved from those survivors, and if they are right then those feathers are a post-Impact survival trait...

The question has to be if there was an intelligent races of Dinosaurs... I mean, if we suffered an equally destructive impact today, we wouldn't have the forewarning to see it coming even now... How much of humanity would survive? Forty Years of darkness and artic cold...

Answer 2

Of course. Nobody claims that an asteroid killed all the dinosaurs directly and immediately. The theory is that they died as a result of the consequences of the impact. I think the idea is that the asteroid would have created a huge dust cloud that obscured the sun, making the earth cooler and killing many plants. The dinosaurs couldn't survive in the new conditions and gradually died out, but the mammals were more adaptable and smaller, so they could get along on less food, so they survived.

Answer 3

Most of the dinosaurs lived after the impact, but the clouds thrown up by that impact blocked most of the sunlight so that even at noon it was almost as dark as night. And the clouds stayed in the air for months or even years. This caused all the plants to die and the dinosaurs all starved. They were not killed directly by the explosion.

Answer 4

The impact event did not instantly kill all the dinosaurs. Rather it started a chain of environmental changes that caused many of the Earth's species (not just dinosaurs) to go extinct.

Answer 5

sure but all the other dinosaurs that survived the asteriod died from the gases and rocks that covered the sun

Answer 6

Yes, technically birds are dinosaurs since most scientists seem to feel they evolved from theropod dinosaurs. And as we know, birds are alive and fine today.

Answer 7

lots of dinosaurs survived the asteroid, it was all of the small, medium and large ones which were wiped out.

the tiny ones and one sin the depths of the ocean survived or we wouldn't have birds and crocodiles

Answer 8

Yes, if an asteroid hit.

But you're assuming that one did actually hit. We have no way of knowing for sure that's what happened.

Love Jack

Answer 9

Yes, the smaller dinosaurs did, because they were able to burrow underground.

Answer 10

If is some giant asteroid no.Because the earth atmosphere would be full of gases.