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General Land Before Time / A Theory about the Dinosaurs
« on: August 13, 2014, 05:05:57 PM »
I now agree that the global warming part is too hard to predict, so I have removed it from my theory. Some unspecified extinction event causes reptiles to take over as the dominant organisms, but not necessarily anthropogenic global warming.
Pangaea: Yes, I meant it to be more of a playful "Wild Mass Guessing" thing. It's painfully obvious that the creators of TLBT clearly and explicitly intended to make the characters dinosaurs. And I would also like to say that I am very glad to find that you are aware of reptilian intelligence. It always used to annoy me whenever people claimed that reptiles are stupid.
And the reason why it says "the dinosaurs are really mammals" is because I originally wrote a theory about mammals, but I then edited my post and changed it to lizards. However, I couldn't figure out how to edit the description. Anyway, here's my original theory about mammals:
In addition to the anatomical inaccuracies in the dinosaurs that I had already mentioned, I also noticed an additional odd characteristic of the TLBT characters; they have external ears. In reality, no sauropsids have external ears. Only synapsids, such as mammals, possess them. This led me to think that the characters could really be aberrant dinosaur-like mammals. So I came up with a theory that, in the future, mammals evolve to be dinosaur-like. Petrie might be a pterosaur-like bat, Littlefoot might be a hairless giraffe with a long, thick tail, Cera might be a hairless rhinoceros with a frill and a long, thick tail, etc. I thought it was too crazy, so I then changed it to the lizards.
And I do agree that it is unlikely that either lizards or mammals would evolve to exactly resemble every single Mesozoic Era creature. But unlikely things can still happen. The chance of the asteroid that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs actually striking the Earth must have been very small, but it still happened. Same for the speech issue. No matter how small the odds are, both are still possible.
Pangaea: Yes, I meant it to be more of a playful "Wild Mass Guessing" thing. It's painfully obvious that the creators of TLBT clearly and explicitly intended to make the characters dinosaurs. And I would also like to say that I am very glad to find that you are aware of reptilian intelligence. It always used to annoy me whenever people claimed that reptiles are stupid.
And the reason why it says "the dinosaurs are really mammals" is because I originally wrote a theory about mammals, but I then edited my post and changed it to lizards. However, I couldn't figure out how to edit the description. Anyway, here's my original theory about mammals:
In addition to the anatomical inaccuracies in the dinosaurs that I had already mentioned, I also noticed an additional odd characteristic of the TLBT characters; they have external ears. In reality, no sauropsids have external ears. Only synapsids, such as mammals, possess them. This led me to think that the characters could really be aberrant dinosaur-like mammals. So I came up with a theory that, in the future, mammals evolve to be dinosaur-like. Petrie might be a pterosaur-like bat, Littlefoot might be a hairless giraffe with a long, thick tail, Cera might be a hairless rhinoceros with a frill and a long, thick tail, etc. I thought it was too crazy, so I then changed it to the lizards.
And I do agree that it is unlikely that either lizards or mammals would evolve to exactly resemble every single Mesozoic Era creature. But unlikely things can still happen. The chance of the asteroid that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs actually striking the Earth must have been very small, but it still happened. Same for the speech issue. No matter how small the odds are, both are still possible.