Baby alligators reveal how dinos ruled Earth

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 10:08 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Dinosaurs evolved into huge multi-ton lizards and then died out. But alligators survived almost unchanged from their ancient form, despite fluctuations in oxygen — with concentrations as high as 23 percent — while the dinosaurs were still alive.

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