"Dinosaurs Were Unaffected by Climate Change,..." Topic

… Flourished before Asteroid Strike, Paleontologists Say.

""Dinosaurs were likely not doomed to extinction until the end of the Cretaceous, when the asteroid hit, declaring the end of their reign and leaving the planet to animals like mammals, lizards and a minor group of surviving dinosaurs: birds," said study lead author Alessandro Chiarenza, a PhD student at Imperial College London.

"The results of our study suggest that dinosaurs as a whole were adaptable animals, capable of coping with the environmental changes and climatic fluctuations that happened during the last few million years of the Late Cretaceous."…"
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Armand

I imagine they learned to migrate.

People and animals will learn to adapt too, to longer growing seasons, warmer weather at more northerly latitudes, etc., etc..

The other thing to remember is that climate change prior to the asteroid strike and following the Triassic-Jurassic extinction occurred over natural time scales rather than the human accelerated ones of the 6th extinction. Hence the dinosaurs had much more time to adapt whether by migration or just adapting to gradually changing climate conditions.

Chris

Thanks!.

Amicalement
Armand

People and animals will learn to adapt too, to longer growing seasons, warmer weather at more northerly latitudes, etc., etc..

You do realize don't you that "adapt" in this context means evolutionary adaptations over millions of years (read the article)? The human-accelerated climate change we are said to be currently experiencing would presumably have much more drastic consequences on individuals. It's not just jumping in the SUV, driving a few hundred miles north, and installing more AC in the new house.