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No More Reptiles; Reptiles gone 65 MYA
Topic Started: Nov 26 2009, 10:57 PM (1,339 Views)
Black_Panther
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Hi, everyone.
I've been plagued by a few ideas during the last weeks, so, now i want to ask something that i've found interesting.
What if all reptiles were wiped out along with the dinosaurs?
I mean, no snakes, turtles, lizards or crocodiles. How would mammals, birds and other lifeforms evolve and what would change?
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The Dodo
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I think he means no snake hunting birds.
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Ddraig Goch
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Yep. I guess this also changes the plot line to Bedknobs and Broomsticks...
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This will be an interesting world.

I see most Reptile niches going to Mammals with birds taking Only a few mostly predatory ones.

Can any body say Kamodo Cockatrice?
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Ddraig Goch
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D you think anything might evolve into the snakes' position?
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Depends. Most likely this would mean a larger diversity of mustelids and animals like caecillians
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New Mustulids, Rodents and Legomorphs are the diversity for the placentals.

Most small Marsupials like Possums/Opossums and the carnivorous ones.

All Monotremes.

The Birds get more small land Birds like Chickens.

And we might see larger Arthropods taking small lizard niches and maybe larger bug populations to feed their larger Bird predators.

And Amphibians will have Salamanders, Those serpent ones and Frogs diversify.
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