AHC: Humans evolve without KT

this pretty much sums up what would happen

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  • With all that evolutionary time available, the dinosaurs might have evolved a human analogue, they weren't genetic johnny-one-notes.
I would consider that the most likely outcome. In fact, what would prohibit multiple raptor-descended bipedal sapients from evolving? We don't know why H.sap's relatives died out, & IIRC, there were once over a dozen "families"; who's to say there couldn't be multiple "dino-men"? (This does preclude Godzilla; probably *King Kong eats Tokyo...)
Just a note, dinos couldn't fly.
One word: pterosaur.
 
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The phorusrhacids didn't die out because they were defeated by the Super Awesome Mammals Of Default Superiority, they died out because climate changes eradicated the mammalian prey species that were their bread and butter.

Also, the phorusrhacids inhabited South America, which was separated from North America by a strait (some species migrated north once the Americas became connected). Saying that the phorusrhacids "dominated the world" is like saying lions dominate the world because they're a top predator in parts of Africa.

*goes back to foaming in rage at the paleontology fail that permeats this thread*

Well considering it was a rather recent science series that I got that information from I wouldn't call it a 'palaeontology fail', at least not on my part but the part of the universities involved in the project. I also never said that mammals were super awesome, I was mererly stating that the terror birds and crocs more or less took the niches that everyone here is saying dinosaurs would keep filling and yet lost out to the mammals in those niches eventually. The series also did not discuss south american terror birds, it was discussing the fall of the north american ones.
 
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