Summer heat randomness

 

During a Summer heatwaves, it makes many of us feel lazy! Wildlife are adapted to things like the change of seasons and temperatures. Domestic dogs and wolves don't naturally sweat like human do but they pant, shed fur and keep in the shade. Therefore I want to argue that people taking their dogs out for walks in a heatwaves should keep to the shade, bring some water along, and not stay out much. Dogs actually don't like going for walks during a heatwaves, especially the old. 

So how do polar bears and arctic foxes cope in wildlife centres during summer? There are zoos with cold fridge pools of water, designed for polar animals. Polar bears are given large iced lollies full of treats including fish. 

On further note, the Earth during a summer heatwaves is still "cold" in comparison to the Cretaceous era climate! Very few modern wild animals could cope with it, if sent back in time! The majority of mammals would hate the Cretaceous weather so much, apart from mice, rats and honey badgers! Also opossums, river otters and bats too would do well. Other animals such as birds, snakes, crocodiles and alligators would be okay. 

Humans would adapt also, by finding various coastal settlements or high altitude dwellings, safe from big land predators. People would resort to being hunter gatherers due to the Cretaceous landscape unsuitable for farming crops. Diet would be mostly dinosaur meat, fish, eggs, ferns, marrow, and prehistoric fruits. Of plants, the safest to eat would be fiddleheads, ferns, horsetails and pine nuts. (Storm Valkyrie says: "Humans won't be immune to pathogens that was around during that time.") 

How would werewolves survive this era? The Cretaceous was extremely hot, so werewolves would remain nocturnal and more so, hunting smaller prey at night. Werewolves would end up living in caves or deep tunnels they burrow themselves. They would live in tropical dense moist forests or beside the coast. The north and south poles during the Cretaceous period would be more easier to live for werewolves, modern animals and humans but still competition from dinosaurs.

So the Summer heatwaves are nothing to the Cretaceous era temperatures. Check out the Cretaceous thermal info at Wikipedia page HERE.

She Wolf Night and Storm Valkyrie   

A bright quickie

 

Enjoy the Summer solstice!

From She Wolf Night and friends.

Dragons of Skye

It's very strange that traces of dinosaurs found in Scotland are all centred on the misty Isle of Skye. Every cool new information about the Jurassic period is found centred on the Isle of Skye, and it holds the most treasures that interest many working in paleontology. 

All of the dinosaurs found in Skye are of the Middle Jurassic. Skye is a time capsule, with multiple dinosaur species bones and footprints all over. They found some complete dinosaur skeletons there. Isle of Skye has folklore and legends about creatures such as dragons called Beithir. One lives deep underground beneath Dunvegan Castle. There are the fighting dragons on the rocky hills of Quiraing. Deadly dragons haunt the Loch Coruisk.  

The gathering of footprints belong to so many types of dinosaurs that scientists call it a "Dino Disco"! The Jurassic dance floor is a pattern which reveals that Skye was once a tropical lagoon connected to a larger continent. There's sauropods, stegosaurus, theropods including relations of T-rex. There's even the fossil of Dearc sgiathanach ("winged reptile" in Gaelic), which is the biggest pterosaur on record.  

Links: For more about Dinosaurs found on the island of Skye, you can get the book Jurassic Skye by authors Sarah White and Dugald Ross. 

BBC covered "40 years of discoveries on Skye".

Highland Experience shows where to find dinosaur prints.

Just for fun, Discovering Kelpies article "the Faery flag of Dunvegan Castle".

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