Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event Puns

• If so would it have happened millions of years later?

• If not, could reptiles have become technologically advanced?

Every single dinosaur that was alive when the meteor hit is resurrected tomorrow! They appear where their bones have generally been found, but land creatures spawn on land, and sea creatures spawn in the sea. The populations are best estimate for a thriving dinosaur ecosystem.

The dinosaurs can breath our air and have no issue with the new atmosphere. Herbivores can digest our plants without issue. Carnivores can digest human meat just fine too.

Can human society survive the onslaught of raptors, rexes, triceratopses, and various other nasty prehistoric beasties? Or does a magical super overabundance of mega fauna doom our race to a life in caves, similar to the Flintstones, Captain Caveman, etc?

• Round 1: Just dinosaurs.

• Round 2: Everything that was alive 66 million years ago.

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Tomorrow, some scientists discover that in exactly 10 years time, an exact copy of the asteroid/comet that killed the dinosaurs is going to land in the exact same spot on Earth! Can humanity divert the asteroid before it hits the Earth? If we can't, can we survive the ensuing fallout of the impact? For reference I suppose. Everyone is in character.

Would it have devastated or, worse, destroyed the Moon or even altered the orbit? Since I'm sure debris would have been thrown up in any case would that have caused issues?

In any case if Earth and the Moon were not significantly impacted it would have radically altered evolution.

Your thoughts? :)

I doubt that it would. IIRC the meteor that hit our planet allowed for tropical forests to spring up. So I don't think that our planet would be the same in terms of biomes and climate just with dinosaurs, pterosaurs, etc. Thoughts?

My group is primarily comprised of non-avian dinosaurs who aren't into all of this "cult of the new". Bonus for games that can be played with T-Rex arms.

Hello, I was confused about something regarding the extinction event: AFAIK 70%+ of species went extinct but over what kind of time period? Was it thousands of years? Or hundreds of thousands? If the plants were endangered from particles blocking the Sun out resulting in inhibited rates of photosynthesis causing starvation, wouldn't this happen very very fast? I mean the big dinosaurs needed to eat kilos and kilos a day; basically my question is how come the event didn't take place over some months/years? Thank you!

I was wondering if the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event killed so many dinosaurs that it has led to a disproportionate amount of fossils being from that time, or if the extinction event was so severe that very few of the fossils are from that time. I understand that it isn't just a dinosaur dieing that creates a fossil, that it must be preserved due to some unique circumstance, but I'm curious if the extinction event created more or less opportunity for those circumstances, and thus more or less fossils. Wordy as heck, sorry!

I mean it's not that far-fetched.

EDIT: Title gore, 'and this WAS done to earth'

I usually triple read my shit, and I was focused on not incorrectly spelling cretaceous.

After the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, did the earth shake up enough to swish around the water enough to change ocean temperatures? If so, was it enough to see its effects in how marine life has evolved?

I was curious what the magnitude was of the largest earthquake in the world's history (not including something too ridiculous, like when the moon was formed). I would guess that even super volcanoes wouldn't trigger as large of an earthquake as the K-T extinction event.