Very good article.

Interesting article. Doesn't really explain why the bird-like dinosaurs survived while all other dinosaurs, regardless of size or food source, did not survive.

Wider ranging ability to locate food? In a "hunting" scenario, they had the high ground...

If the basic drivers of evolution over the millions of years were the same after the dinosaur extinction as they were before, I'd think that 66 million years of evolutionary development would have been more than enough for an advanced technological saurian race to have developed. This article explains, in a way, why we find no evidence of such a race. It was, probably, because they evacuated the planet well before the asteroid came and they did so due to their knowledge of the increasing vulnerability/instability of the global ecosystems. Of course, they took their tech with them and, after so many millions of years of development, had learned what we have yet to learn - don't leave tech garbage lying around for posterity!

What perfect scientific rubbish and postulation. Don't you love these kind of statements:

"Dinosaurs might have...."

"This was probably because of...."

"Evolution" is the world's biggest made up story today.

Verkle: "I have 2 science degrees"

-You do know that Christian Science is not a science don't you?

"ORU is also one of the few undergraduate colleges in the southwest to have a human cadaver dissection class. While ORU is considered a Christian University, the College of Science and Engineering does not ignore evolutionary theories to teach Creationism."

-They don't 'ignore' evolution. How progressive.

"Rather, the students are taught to think critically for themselves."

-Always keeping in mind that all critical thought originates in the father. Or the son. Or the Holy Spirit. One if the 3. Or all of them who knows? Maybe gods mother knows.

Another way to conclude this is to say that dinosaurs died out as a combination of a large volcanic period (which incidentally is the cause of the other mass extinctions) and the asteroid impact played a part as well.

Interesting article. Doesn't really explain why the bird-like dinosaurs survived while all other dinosaurs, regardless of size or food source, did not survive.

I'd be willing to bet that they were much smaller than a vast majority of dinosaurs, and so were more mobile and could leverage the smaller species of insects which survived.

"Still doesn't explain why the small dinosaurs which were not bird like did not survive when the bird like dinosaurs did."
Mammals being voracious egg eaters take advantage of animals who do not guard or conceal their nests well, may be part of the answer.

"Evolution" is the world's biggest made up story today.

You tell 'em! Ain't no way I came from no monkey!

I came from the incestuous grapplings of a single boat family after an impossible flood, themselves the descendants of the incestuous children of a dust man and a rib woman who were duped into eating magic fruit by a talking snake despite the prohibition of a shrimp-hating sky fairy.

Now THAT's a story I can believe in!