If dinosaurs survive and dachshunds do not, then dinosaurs are more "fit."
It was often assumed that the dinosaurs survived due to their superior speed and agility.
They said the dinosaurs might have survived the chill dark through a kind of semi-hibernation.
Had the rock not been rich in sulfur, you say, "the dinosaurs might well have survived the impact, thereby changing the course of evolution."
Whatever dinosaurs survived the impact were killed by a deadly pandemic, a plague to end all plagues.
There's no way dinosaurs could have survived for sixty-five million years in North America without us knowing it.
Why did the dinosaurs, which were so successful, die out, while other animals such as frogs, which we know are environmentally sensitive, survive?
By their evidence, dinosaurs survived the extinctions to die out some time later.
Four years after the events of Jurassic Park, dinosaurs have secretly survived and been allowed to roam free on a deserted island.
If it had not been, they concluded, the dinosaurs might well have survived the impact, thereby changing the course of evolution.