When dinosaurs walked around in what is now northern Canada, North America lay in a different orientation. At some point (maybe 100 million years ago), IIRC, it lay roughly on its side with the equator passing through land which now resides above the arctic circle. It's a little misleading to say dinosaurs used live in the arctic...
"Animals have always for millions of years adapted to factors beyond their control. Climate, seasons, etc., they've all managed to evolve just fine."
Not quite - 99.9% of all the creatures that have inhabited the earth throughout history have gone extinct.
On the other hand, you probably meant to say that all of the creatures that are alive today have managed to avoid extinction. Even that is likely untrue, as some are believed to be the sole survivors of their species ("walking dead", I think, is one term used to describe them).
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Where is God? Actually, you just missed him. He stepped out to the corner store for some smokes.
But that might be too ambitious a prediction.
I'm going to go slashdot my toilet now.
When dinosaurs walked around in what is now northern Canada, North America lay in a different orientation. At some point (maybe 100 million years ago), IIRC, it lay roughly on its side with the equator passing through land which now resides above the arctic circle. It's a little misleading to say dinosaurs used live in the arctic...
Sure. Some links below, found on google. I'd show you my textbook, if I could :)
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http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/Science/extin
http://biomed.brown.edu/Courses/BIO48/38.Extincti
http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/courses/EEB105/le
http://fig.cox.miami.edu/Faculty/Tom/bil160sp98/1
Simon
"Animals have always for millions of years adapted to factors beyond their control. Climate, seasons, etc., they've all managed to evolve just fine."
Not quite - 99.9% of all the creatures that have inhabited the earth throughout history have gone extinct.
On the other hand, you probably meant to say that all of the creatures that are alive today have managed to avoid extinction. Even that is likely untrue, as some are believed to be the sole survivors of their species ("walking dead", I think, is one term used to describe them).
It's Neo.