Some Dinosaurs Made Underground Dens

anthemaniac writes "Scientists have long puzzled over how some dinosaurs and other creatures survived the asteroid impact that supposedly caused the KT mass extinction 65 million years ago and wiped out all the big dinosaurs. One idea has been that smaller animals, including mammals, could have endured the fallout, the big chill, the subsequent volcanoes, and whatever else by burrowing. Now scientists have come up with the first evidence of burrowing dinosaurs. They speculate that underground dens might explain how some dinosaurs got through long, dark winters at high latitudes, too."

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Correction

[Wonko the Sane]

The fake dinosaur bones that god put in the ground to test our faith were positioned in a what was made to appear as an underground burrow.

This all happened sometime last week.

Welllllll

[Spazntwich]

if the dinosaurs were so smart, how come they're dead?

Re:Welllllll

[drawfour]

they probably just typed in comments on slashdot and watched porn all day, so forgot to eat.

Thanks for reminding me!

Underground dinosaurs?

[malevolentjelly]

These burrowing dinosaurs must be from the species of Skeletal Dinosaurs we've found living underground for millions of years.

SECRET TIP: Use bludgeoning weapons when fighting skeletal dinosaurs, they're resistant to piercing! ;)

College students burrow too!

[physicsphairy]

When the great cataclysmic meteorite strikes, only those of us sequestered in basements playing WoW and hacking up patches to the Linux kernel will survive the impact. And, even more certainly, when the atmospheric plume of debris blocks out the sun, others will starve, and only we who subsist on inorganics such as cheetos and mountain dew will live to assert our genes in the remnant ecosystem.