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StrangeAsYou t1_isvqb46 wrote

Reply to comment by Xanderbell0120 in How can we know details about animals that lived thousands of years ago if all we have are bones? by DemetrioGonz

I'm assuming they used previously unstudied fossil markers plus new examination of DNA as it relates to currently alive animals.

Advances in technology change everything.

Cars, dinosaurs, energy production, what's really alive in dirt. Everything!

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MaybeImTheNanny t1_isvyrx7 wrote

They found feather impressions first and then extrapolated. We find new things and form new theories. This particular theory is like 25 years old so not so new.

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StrangeAsYou t1_isw1yd3 wrote

25 years out of 100 thousand is pretty new.

We don't think they are mythical creatures anymore either. Dragons, griffins, hydras, unicorns.

All dinosaurs.

The real cause of the dinosaurs demise was only confirmed in 1988. There were competiting theories prior to that.

Our modern understanding is all pretty new.

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ThisVicariousLife t1_isw41rm wrote

I read an article just recently that said that scientists are starting to rethink the cataclysmic meteor theory and leaning more toward massive volcanic eruption to the scale of Mt. Vesuvius. Nat Geo Article Link

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