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Re: Elton: Meteor May Not Have Destroyed Dinosaurs Afterall?

I'm getting further from the main idea of this thread, but something bothers
me about the events around the K/T mass extinction.

Birds survived to become one of the most successful creatures on the planet.
Lizards survived but took a back seat. Small mammals lived and later became
bigger mammals that gathered meteorites.

But of the dinosaurs, no trace remains. However, the smaller dinosaur
species on the order of chicken size, would have had a nearly equal
opportunity of survival, but the planet is completely purged of them as
well. In fact, they would have had large numbers of carcasses to feed off
while the planet went dark.  Why did the terror birds next inflict fear into
the hearts of mammals instead of a dinosaur resurrection occuring from
surviving small species? What is the great fundamental difference between
the birds and dinosaurs that must have allowed one to survive after the
other was dispatched?

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