What animals survived to the meteor impact that killed the Dinosaurs?

Question

Can anybody cite a source???

Answer 1

The mass extinction in which dinosaurs became extinct is called the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction (or K-T extinction), and you can look it up as such. Here's what Wikipedia says:

Casualties and survivors of the K-T extinction

Marine groups which became totally extinct include:

* Ammonoids, which are currently thought to have fed on (zoo)plankton.
* Rudists, a group of clams which were the major reef-builders of the Cretaceous and also fed on plankton.
* Inoceramids, giant relatives of modern scallops - they also fed on plankton.
* Mosasaurs, giant lizards which were the top marine predators.
* Plesiosaurs, another group of large reptilian marine predators.

Planktonic organisms suffered heavy losses, notably the coccolithophorids (chalk-forming nanoplankton algae which largely gave the Cretaceous period its name).

Terrestrial groups which became totally extinct include:

* Non-avian dinosaurs. Note: most paleontologists regard birds as the surviving dinosaurs.
* Pterosaurs

Groups which suffered heavy losses include:

* Birds. Some groups became extinct, including Enantiornithes and Hesperornithiformes.
* Marsupials. The Northern hemisphere family of marsupials became extinct, but those in Australia and South America survived.
* Freshwater mussels and snails also suffered heavy losses in North America.

But some terrestrial groups were relatively unaffected:

* Insects. These show no sign of reduced diversity, unlike at the Permo-Triassic extinction.
* Amphibians
* Turtles
* Lepidosaurs. These include tuataras, lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians.
* Champsosaurs (semi-aquatic archosauromorphs) - they later died out in the early Oligocene.
* Crocodilians
* Modern birds (Aves), which are not closely related to the bird groups which became extinct
* Monotremes, egg-laying mammals.
* Multituberculates, although they later became extinct in the early Oligocene.
* Placentals, the ancestors of most modern mammals.

Answer 2

there replace right into a meteor that hit earth and it led to a airborne dirt and dust cloud to embody the earth and the dinosaurs died from loss of light for that quantity of time. Birds are present day dinosaurs and that they survived via fact they might fly over the airborne dirt and dust cloud. Many animals replace into extinct via fact of people. Oil spills kill many animals right this moment.

Answer 3

Small animals that could hide...that is, animals like lizards and mice...survived the impact. They evolved into many of the animals we see today. Humans come from mice, not apes! Actually, the killing of the dinosaurs allowed for larger mammals, because they had less threat (if they were big before, they would've been eaten).

Answer 4

Watched a special the other day stating that scorpions have been around that long. They used to be fish like things but adapted to live on land and are drastically smaller now. But I can't personally say, wasn't here back then but I know dinosaurs would have scared me ferociously!

Answer 5

Theropod dinosaurs... which then evolved into todays present day birds.

Excerpt from Wikipedia.. The current scientific consensus holds that birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Using the strict phylogenetic definition of a clade as all descendants of a single last common ancestor, modern birds are dinosaurs and dinosaurs are, therefore, not extinct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_Bird_Connection

Answer 6

Several. They say cocaroaches can survive nuclear blasts, but more noteably reptiles such as crocodiles and snakes survived (obivously if you don't think they died by the meteor theory, then thats different - in any case, reptiles are still here today).

Answer 7

Cockroaches

Answer 8

About half the species extant. Some reptiles (sea turtles, lizards, crocodiles). Some mammals. Some birds. Plenty of insects. *shrug*

Answer 9

we dont know that a meteor killed the dinosaurs, but sharks and reptiles have been around for ever

Answer 10

Roaches