Jurrasic Park around the corner?

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tomcat ha Wrote:Dinosaurs werent that stupid. They were about just as intelligent as mammals today. For a very long time we mammals werent really playing a major role because the dinosaurs were superior in about each way but somewhow the classic dinosaurs got extinct.

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Yellowbelly Wrote:Dinos could have been extremely stupid also. I imagine that a human could take down a charging t-rex with a huge lance. Stick it in the ground until the dino runs into, get a sword out and stab it while it\'s wounded.

Do you have any idea how big and strong a T-Rex was? No human can carry a lance huge enough to impale a T-Rex on it. You\'d need a huge structure to counter its strength, speed and ferocity. That, or a cannon

Yellowbelly Wrote:Dino\'s probably died out over a looooooong period of time. Maybe weather patterns changed and climates as well which it wasn\'t suitable for them. Maybe your belgian dino died many thousands of years ago while the US one died 500 years ago. I\'m just saying, it couldn\'t have died that long ago because the flesh is still around and decomposing still.

There\'ve been mass graves of dino\'s found that have been dated to around 65 million years ago. No skeletons have been found beyond that date. Well, nothing conclusive, only speculations and theories, like \"dragons\" and such.

Yellowbelly Wrote:I don\'t see how they out competed mammals. We\'re still here right? There are other strong theories that support that men lived with dino\'s since almost the beginning of time.

They didn\'t outcompete mammals, they were there way before them, and didn\'t give them a change to fully evolve. When the dino\'s died out, it was time for the rise of mammals.

And I\'ve seen the photos of \"human\" footprints next to \"dino\" footprints. Or the \"shoeprints\" with a crushed trilobite in the heel. Mesmerizing photos, sure, but far from conclusive enough to speak of human-dino interaction. As long as no one digs up a human-like skeleton right next to a dino, I\'m not convinced.