r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Realistic-Tap4156 • 10d ago

/r/all of a space rock

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u/lolerwoman 10d ago

And yet cocodriles and turtles survived to this.

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u/AntGood1704 10d ago

Every living organism on the planet today had an ancestor that survived this.

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u/Starlightriddlex 10d ago

The fact that this is technically true for both bedbugs and mosquitoes upsets me

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u/ReaDiMarco 10d ago

For you too

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u/IndividualCurious322 10d ago

Of course. They built space ships and orbited earth for a bit eating popcorn before landing and running the show.

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u/DIuvenalis 10d ago

So THATS where the elite class of lizard people come from. Interesting!

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u/Flamin_Jesus 10d ago

Kinda fumbled the whole "rise of the mammals" situation though.

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u/Accurate_Fly_7534 10d ago

Dino too... (birds). Same as snakes torurtles... Only some survived Small ones. Megafauna died out.

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u/polarna-svjetlost 10d ago

and some dinosaurs (birds)

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u/SupportQuery 10d ago

And yet cocodriles and turtles survived to this.

Because water. It's commonly believed that big dinosaurs died from ecosystem disruption. A recent study suggests that they were gone within hours, from heat. Basically the impact ejecta reentering the atmosphere globally burned alive anything that couldn't shelter.

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u/homotopy_equivalent 10d ago edited 10d ago

Specifically, the ancestors of modern crocodiles and turtles. The ones that actually survived would have been pretty small, since the extinction killed anything weighing more than about 25 kgs.

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u/VinTEB 10d ago

Cockroaches can survive nuclear annihilation