Eli5: If the rainforest of Borneo is 130 million years old, why aren’t any surviving dinosaur species found there?

Question

If old rainforest ecosystems like these could withstand extinction events (ie. Asteroid impact), wouldnt the fauna living there survive too?

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Answer 1

Adding to everyone’s comments here, given the nature of a rainforest, it is possible dinosaur bones have not yet been discovered. The fact that the rainforst re-generated is the nature of a rainforetst. For example, some Australia trees rely on a natural disaster such as bushfire to regenerate. When a dinosaur is gone, there is no regeneration possible.