Monday, April 6, 2015

Arctic Spring Dinosaurs

arctic dinosaurs hadrosaurs

 It's finally springtime for those of us in the northern hemisphere... If we set our "Dino Cam" back 70 million years we see a common scene this time of year in what is now Alaska: large herds of "duckbill" hadrosaurs migrating north toward the lush cool forests that are emerging from the cloak of winter darkness. Here we see the herd moving in unison under the glowing luminescence of the aurora borealis - the "northern lights". As daylight increases significantly over the upcoming months, the aurora will soon disappear, when long nights are replaced by the warming blooms and feeding fields of nearly 24 hour daylight - for the dinosaurs of northern latitudes, just as it does for us today...

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