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> It's like saying the Dinosaurs' way of life wasn't 'stable' before the meteorite hit.

It really wasn't, though; IIRC, the current reading of the evidence is that the mass extinction started about 10 million years before the impact delivered the coup de grace.

But I think you were assuming the somewhat popular fiction where things were stable, but then the meteorite wiped them out.



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