duck-billed dinosaur

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Enough said. Where I live (Interior Alaska) there were wooly mammoths and today there are still musk ox, which remained unchanged over eons.

quote from hyperlinked article:

"...Alaska in the time of the dinosaurs was much warmer than it is today. Researchers have found ancient pollen of ferns and other plants that suggest the North Slope was more like a Louisiana bayou than the frigid place it is today..."

i wonder if sometime in the future, alaska will return to being warmer, and what will happen to the current animal residents [not to mention the human ones as well]

Oh, that is scary. Perhaps someday, in the far distant future, Alaska, and our entire planet, will be not as we know. [Wrong Planet exempt, of course].

In the meantime, global warming is all too real in AK. So distressing to see our magnificient and proud polar bears starving - just hurts me to know they're in danger. This shift in climate has impacted AK is a myriad of ways.
But not really possible to predict that far off.

I walk about in the field near where I live and sometimes imagine gigantic furry elephants when I see our SandHill Cranes and other migratory birds from Asia. I love AK in the winter especially. Our wildlife is so unique, as if untouched and pristine. There are regions of N.W. Alaska that are as yet entirely unexplored! I love to see caribou that walk in lines across the terrain.

Earlier this spring, in the field (above mentioned), two swans flew directly over my head. Strange sensation as I could hear their wingbeats - I shivered. Swans are HEAVY birds and so powerful to fly as they do. Those swans had no fear of me either.

Sometimes, at night, I dream about the animals and imagine what they had been.

Count on the planet changing. The continents move around (very slowly). Climate is constantly changing. There was a time when trees grew in Greenland and people could farm there and raise livestock. Then the climate cooled. If you think it is hot (or warm now) think about the Siberian Traps about 600 million ybp. A million years of volcanic eruptions that killed off 95 percent of living things on the planet.

ruveyn

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