🦖 Why did dinosaurs rule the world for more than 160 million years?

🦖 Why did dinosaurs rule the world for more than 160 million years?

If we count time,

Dinosaurs have dominated the world since the Triassic period.

Continuing through Jurassic until Cretaceous.

More than 160 million years in total.

To visualize

The whole species of humans

It's been on Earth for less than 300,000 years.

The question is...

How did they do that?

🌍 1. The world of that era "suits them."

During most of the dinosaur era,

The earth is high and stable.

There is no current polar ice cap.

Weather like this

Fits cold-blooded or semi-warm-blooded animals.

Like dinosaurs.

That uses energy efficiently.

🧬 2. Dinosaurs adapt very well.

Dinosaurs do not have one shape.

But very diverse.

Have both

• Big, small

• Run fast, fly

• Eat plants, eat meat, eat everything.

This diversity.

Make them "diversify."

When the environment changes,

🦖 3. Balanced ecosystem

Over tens of millions of years,

World ecosystems

Gradually balancing the dinosaurs.

Predators, prey and vegetation

Developed along the way

No one party dominates the world too much.

When the system is still balanced,

The mass extinction just didn't happen.

🐣 4. Effective reproduction.

Many spawning dinosaurs

And many kinds.

There's a certain level of care for the baby.

Despite the death of so many children,

But the number that survived

Enough to sustain the population.

This is a strategy that nature uses very often.

🧠 5. Don't be the smartest, but survive.

Some dinosaurs may not be very smart.

But they

• Strong

• Grow up fast

• Adapt well

In nature.

Intelligence doesn't have to be the most.

Just "fit the world" is enough.

🌪️ Then why did it disappear?

The extinction of dinosaurs

Not caused by "weakness."

But caused by

World change

That's too quick and violent.

Such as meteorites, volcanoes and inclement weather.

The world changes too fast for the system to adjust in time.

🧠 Lessons from dinosaurs

Dinosaurs taught us that

The long domination of the world.

Doesn't mean to survive forever.

Those who really survived.

Is those who adapt quickly.

When the world suddenly changed,

✨. End of chapter.

If a bird is a living dinosaur,

It means

The World Domination of Dinosaurs

Probably not really over yet.

Just change the shape.

And the only way of life.