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Polar dinos???
Jun. 4th, 2020 12:25 pmvia https://ift.tt/2AzJgMb
right so there wasn’t much in the way of polar ice caps back in the time of dinosaurs, but places at the extreme north or south ends of the globe still got plenty cold and dinosaurs lived in all of these places.
in the far south near where Antarctica is today there were all kinds of dinosaurs, from giant long-necked Titanosaurs like Wintonotitan and Austrosaurus to medium-sized Theropods like Cryolophosaurus and Rapator! there was a full thriving ecosystem near the south pole, and you can bet those boys were fuzzy.
(src: Hannah Böving)
meanwhile in the far north near where Alaska is today, we had Theropods like the newly discovered tyrannosaur Nanuqsaurus, small Maniraptorans like Troodon, and big Cerotopsians like Pachyrhinosaurus! and again, all of these animals would have had to have a thick layer of fur-like feathers to survive the arctic climate.
(src: MicrocosmicEcology)
(src: MoriceMonkey93)
it was a wild world with as varied a climate as ours is today, and dinosaurs lived in all of it. 66 million years ago, you could have found dinosaurs skidding around on glaciers and romping in the snow just as easily as you could have found them in a tropical forest, and I think we should talk about that more often.
right so there wasn’t much in the way of polar ice caps back in the time of dinosaurs, but places at the extreme north or south ends of the globe still got plenty cold and dinosaurs lived in all of these places.
in the far south near where Antarctica is today there were all kinds of dinosaurs, from giant long-necked Titanosaurs like Wintonotitan and Austrosaurus to medium-sized Theropods like Cryolophosaurus and Rapator! there was a full thriving ecosystem near the south pole, and you can bet those boys were fuzzy.
(src: Hannah Böving)
meanwhile in the far north near where Alaska is today, we had Theropods like the newly discovered tyrannosaur Nanuqsaurus, small Maniraptorans like Troodon, and big Cerotopsians like Pachyrhinosaurus! and again, all of these animals would have had to have a thick layer of fur-like feathers to survive the arctic climate.
(src: MicrocosmicEcology)
(src: MoriceMonkey93)
it was a wild world with as varied a climate as ours is today, and dinosaurs lived in all of it. 66 million years ago, you could have found dinosaurs skidding around on glaciers and romping in the snow just as easily as you could have found them in a tropical forest, and I think we should talk about that more often.
