Dave Hone

And of course, they'll dig a tooth up and then move it through the layers or things like this.

Or plant roots can move stuff.

Or just soils can get churned up.

But I would be shocked if they didn't.

Not like, oh yeah, the dinosaur survived and the Loch Ness Monster and stuff like that.

But like, yes, it was a global devastation.

Yes, it's what ultimately killed the dinosaurs.

But I'd be amazed if there wasn't some equivalent of Hawaii or New Zealand or some other tucked away island or valley where actually dinosaurs were fine for anything from a few hundred thousand to a couple of million years.

But on a global scale, it's a dot on a map.

And the odds that we'll ever uncover...

Any rocks, fossiliferous rocks of that age that we then have access to, that we then find a dinosaur in, that we can then date properly, I think is almost non-existent.

But it would just be weird if they didn't survive somewhere for a bit, or even quite a few of them in places.

We see it all the time.

You know, the lemurs in Madagascar, all the stuff in New Zealand.

There's tons of weird archaic stuff hanging around in Hawaii.

You know, Galapagos finches and tortoises are the tortoises that you don't see anywhere else.

In Australia with the marsupials, they're almost... And then the monotremes are almost unknown outside of there.

This is a pretty normal bit of biology for animals that were so dominant globally.

We know there were patches that were largely unchanged.

Otherwise, we wouldn't have had the mammals surviving and the crocodiles surviving and the birds surviving and newts and frogs and everything that did survive.