Dinosaurs died out some 65 million years ago and mammals exploited the vacant niche. If they had not died out, which branch of dinosaur might have evolved to become the dominant, most intelligent creature?
• Birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period and species that survived the extinction event 65 million years ago are ancestors of those we see today. Coincidentally, I was watching a flock of geese feeding by a pond recently and it occurred to me that they could be mistaken for a pack of velociraptors.
Were it not for the extinction event, the “terrible lizards” might…
