Feathered dino busts velociraptor myths / Video: meet the dino that survived mass extinction

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New Big Feathered Dino Busts Velociraptor Myths

"Jurassic Park" got it all wrong when depicting Velociraptor, suggests a newly identified, closely-related dinosaur. 

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Meet A Dino That Survived The Mass Extinction Leikupal Laticauda lived after almost nothing else did

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1. Brian Switek disagreed in National Geographic - May 22, 2014

"No, New Sauropod Did Not Survive “The Great Extinction”

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/05/22/no-new-sauropod-did-not-survive-the-great-extinction/
snip:When we think of dinosaur extinction, we think of the end-Cretaceous disaster that dramatically altered the course of life on Earth. The trouble with headlines that proclaim “dinosaur survived mass extinction” is that it sounds as if Leikupal somehow dodged the asteroid that smacked into the planet 66 million years ago. The dinosaur had already been dead for at least 66 million years by then. A video by Discovery News, rightly called out by paleontologist Victoria Arbour, is the worst example of misconstruing the age and actual importance of the dinosaur.

But can we at least say that Leikupal survived a mass extinction, even if it’s not the one the public usually thinks of? Perhaps not.

Analyses of the comings and goings of prehistoric species through time have previously turned up an extinction pulse at the end of the Jurassic. The event wasn’t bad enough to compete with the “Big Five” mass extinctions, but it still seemed to be a spike from the constant, slower tick of extinction that has been going on since life first evolved.

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3. Thx f/ that

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2. The dinosaurs that really survived the mass extinction

were birds. The scientific consensus is that the non-Avian dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, thanks to an asteroid that struck the Yucatán Peninsula.