Living Dinosaurs???

[Jasper]

Alright this sounds extremly crazy, but I don't what to make of this and this here has been in my head for two years now and I think I'm ready to talk about it. Everyone here do you all think that there are really living dinsaurs out there somewhere? P.s. I don't know if this is the place to post this.

[Tails_155]

well... dinosaurs... no, not really, at least not the ones we have classified... but prehistoric animals, yes, the coelacanth seems to fit the bill

[DarkHououmon]

If you believe in the theory, then there are dinosaurs still around today in the form of birds.

And there are remote places in the world that humans have barely explored, if at all, unless I am mistaken. If any dinosaurs like a duckbill were to still be around they would probably be in these remote regions. If any dinosaurs are still around, I would have to say that a duckbill would be the most likely candidate, seeing how they were probably the most successful dinosaurs, the most diverse.

I don't completely dismiss the idea of dinosaurs (not the flying feathered kind) still being around. After all, there have been cases of a species thought to be extinct, and then someone finds a living specimen. One example is the coelacanth.

[Tails_155]

with genetic modifications, one could use those scales from Dakota, and try to bring one back, I think it'd be worthwhile

[Jasper]

To note the Coelacanth has been around for 360 million years. I don't know how it servived four mass extinctions and several ice ages. I think god was on the coelacanth's side.

[Jasper]

By the way any of you guys heard about dinosaur sightings in Africa?

[lbt/cty_lover]

^Well, I highly doubt that.

^^The coelacanth lives in the ocean. Ice ages and mass-exctinctions have a hard time penetrating the ocean.

^^^^Birds are supposedly the descendants of dinosaurs. Their bone structure is not that far off from the feathered dinosaurs.

[Tails_155]

I know that, but still, imagine an almost-Ducky coming into  sight...

[Jasper]

^Well, I highly doubt that.

^^The coelacanth lives in the ocean. Ice ages and mass-exctinctions have a hard time penetrating the ocean.

^^^^Birds are supposedly the descendants of dinosaurs. Their bone structure is not that far off from the feathered dinosaurs.

Well no one can rule out anything yet.

[Jasper]

^Well, I highly doubt that.

^^The coelacanth lives in the ocean. Ice ages and mass-exctinctions have a hard time penetrating the ocean.

^^^^Birds are supposedly the descendants of dinosaurs. Their bone structure is not that far off from the feathered dinosaurs.

Well no one can rule out anything yet.

Oh have you ever heard of the Great dying?

[lbt/cty_lover]

Here is the thing. If a giant meteorite (I am assuming that theory to be true) were to hit the earth, almost all land-based organisms would be annihilated. The exceptions would be the small animals that live underground. I highly doubt that any reptilian dinosaurs were small, with a few exceptions.

[Tails_155]

but even the smaller animals could be taken out by the earthquakes, volcanoes, and other NATURAL VIOLENCEô that would follow from a meteor destabilizing everything...

[DarkHououmon]

Here is the thing. If a giant meteorite (I am assuming that theory to be true) were to hit the earth, almost all land-based organisms would be annihilated. The exceptions would be the small animals that live underground. I highly doubt that any reptilian dinosaurs were small, with a few exceptions.

Actually there were a lot of dinosaurs that were really small, such as compsognathus (being only the size of a chicken). Not all dinosaurs were huge. In fact most dinosaurs were roughly the size of a modern day cow, from what I understand.

[Jasper]

Plus the "Great Dying" did kill 96% of marine life,which was about 254 million years ago. This was also the largest msaa extinction to occur, which everyone here knows about.

[DarkHououmon]

I thought it was 95% of all life, not just in the water.

[Jasper]

I thought it was 95% of all life, not just in the water.

It's confirmed that 96% of marine life and 70% of land animals died. Confirmed on wikipedia.org and other websites.

[DarkHououmon]

Oh okay.

[Kor]

Some living today could very likely be descendants, as well as some others being sort of cousins.  Also some that are considered dinosaurs like the dimentrodon, if I recall correctly and I"m no expert, were synapsids who evolved later into mammals.  Most of what folks think of as dinosaurs were archosaurs which was a different type.  Forgot the difference, it may be something to do with the hip structure, or skull.

[landbeforetimelover]

The only way a "dinosaur" as we think of them today actually survived is if aliens exist and they took one to another planet that's inhabitable before they all went extinct.

[Kor]

Possible, perhaps even terraformed a  world for them.  Or dinos got tech and some left the world to establish colonies elsewhere before the extinction event happened.