there was a catastrophic event that killed the dinosaurs . so far i have come to the conclusion that they where killed by the events set in place by an meteor or comet hitting the earth because of trace amounts of evidence left in the layer of rock where dinosaurs our found. so let me know what you think thanks
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I think that you are right. Well you are right. Dinosaurs did get killed by a big comet that hit the earth. Also the sun was blocked out so the plants died therefore the plant eaters died. And if the plant eaters died then the meat eaters would starve and then they would die. And that is how the dinosaurs died. \nFrom KitKat
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Okay,I have three points to make.Granted,I didn't refer back to your original question,but I don't think Dinosaurs existed concurrently with modern man.The bible doesn't refer to the meteor impact because no human was alive to report it,and I doubt we would be here today if we were.I don't think you can conceive of the destructive power of that event!Try this verse,"and the earth was without form,and void".Darkness ruled everything,as the natural equivalent of nuclear winter,the suspension of cubic miles of dust and water vapor in the atmosphere,blocked all sunlight,for as much as a century.\n\n2.The only verses you might be referring to,regarding the concurrent existince of man and dinosaur,would be from Job,the references to behemoth and leviathan,are most often believed to be references to the Nile crocodile(which in this period often grew to 20 feet in length)to hippopatami,or to whales.Even in the medieval period,travelers tales of strange animals became exaggerated in retelling to create mythic beasts.If you are reading John,the Revelations,those are mystical beasts which represent things,not real.\n\n3.I sure hope you read this as a serious answer.I think you're missing out on the point of Yahoo Answers if you Click "report abuse" on anything you don't want to hear.
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Hey, cool\nI'm a science nut, too\n(though I dabble in theoretical/quasitheoretical shit)\nand now I'm turning to you for some help...\nFor several years now, I've been twisted into a new shape by an article I encountered one time stating that uh geoligists (I guess) found portions of neurons (yes brain cells) in some rocks somewhere!!??\nThe hell?\nI have to assume they would have mentioned if they were part of a fossil or something...\nIs the Earth sentient?\nAre we all to evolve into rocks someday?\nHow many eons would it take for a rock to decide what to have for dinner?
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You have got to be kidding me. I have a favorite 'prehistoric water-dwelling animal'? I believe in a young earth anyway, so they're not prehistoric. I guess maybe Leviathan.
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PANGEA is was just a big land mass and a lot of water arond it. I am sure there wasnt a lot of living creatures cause them dang dinosaurs done ate everything but themselves and than i am not even sure about that
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My dad used to work at a planetarium and in the gift shop they claimed to sell aquatic "dinosaurs". They were in fact really weird trilobite things. One of them outlived all the others and was like 3 inches long. It was the creepiest thing I ever saw. Maybe they should start mass marketing those instead of the Sea Monkeys. They're far more impressive.
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Dinosaurs are still the most diverse class on the planet, but we call them birds! Pretty cool huh? As an amature paleontologist I can honestly say the no professional paleontologist can honestly that any classic dinosaurs are still around. Another thing about dinos: Dinosaurs were land living animals so no dinos lived in the oceans. Sometimes fossilization is not total and some original bone is still in the fossil and sometimes it appears bleached and to the untrained eye looks fresh. Sorry, but no paleontologist has told me (I am in contact with most of them) that there is a possibility that classic dinosaurs are extant (not extinct) except for their only direct descendents - the class Aves (birds).
1985
No. It is pretty much accepted that it was a combination of environmental change and devastating meteor strikes that wiped them out.
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Perhaps... the weather during the early part of the Cretaceous was warmer than today (and more uniform.)  I'm actually in the process of writing a paper exploring the possibility of hadrosaur hibernation in northern Alaska.\n\nI took a tour of a dinosaur resource center today.  The tour guide said that ability to adapt is what saved KT survivors.  Crocodiles can go months without eating.  Birds migrate.  Fish could swim to deeper water.\n\nIt is still highly debated to what caused the Cretaceous Tertiary extinction.
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As a scientific mind and an individual who is curious, I would like to know. Then I could find a location to watch the impact with my family so I would know such a rare occurance and then die happily. Of course, an asteroid cannot destroy a planet unless it is planet-sized, and there are none left; an asteroid can only cause massive extinction events like the K-T impactor (aka "The Dinosaur Killer"), and probably cripple the human race. Watch "Deep Impact"; it's the most accurate movie made about such a thing thus far.
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If you are talking about the extinction of the dinosaurs when a large meteor hit the Earth and threw up thick clouds than made the world dark for a long time, nobody knows exactly what day it was.
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If the meteorite that struck the earth 600 billion years ago have not wiped out the dinosauraus race at that time, then also they would have became extinct by now.This is because the reason is the earth was much colder at that time before 600 billion years ago  than the present temperature of the earth. So even if the meteorite that struck at that time was not able to wipe the entire dinousauraus race, the heat generated by the meteroite struck on earth would certainly have erased their presence on earth. This made the dinosauraus support sytems critical for their survival. Moreover all the dinousauras didn't die on the same day of the meteroite struck. It took nearly thousands of years till they became extinct. This is because the heat, once generated, can't escape out into the space. It keeps on reflecting back to earth, as you aware of Greenhouse Effect.\nRegarding intelligence, since there was no sign of human presence at that time, there's actually no evidence whether the dinosauraus were equal to humans in terms of intelligence.\n\nGood Question.....!
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If there was a worldwide flood, there should be layers of rock that could be determined to be pre-flood, a layer laid down during the flood, and layers that are post-flood. With all the "Creation Scientists" looking for some type of evidence to support their notions that there was a global flood, not one has found anything remotely close to the sequence I stated.
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Yes, it's going pretty fast! When you think that 150 years ago there were no cars or airplanes. Pretty freaky.\nNothing moved this fast in the past 1,500 years.\nAlso, going off on a tangent a bit... Did you know that 90% of all the extinct creatures that we know about (including all the dinosaurs) have become extinct in the past 150 years!\nMaybe it's all going too fast.
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No, the Earth is much much older.  This is why the Bible is not to be taken literally.  If anything, we were meant to eventually point out these inconsistencies.  The truth is that the dinosaurs existed a long time ago (dragons) and were created to be just another amazing addition to life here on Earth.\n\nThe dinosaurs existed at a time when gravity as we experience it now was attenuated, and we experience much muss less of it.  This is how dinosaurs like the ultrasaur and massive bids like the teratorn were able to walk and fly around without collapsing under their own weight.
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they called them dragons in the bible silly.\n\nand there is more proof of dinosaurs than there is of God
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the atmosphere was heavily clouded with dust that took a very long time to settle out. This caused a drastic cooling of the surface temperature of the earth. Dinosaurs, being cold blooded, could not survive that drastic a climatologic change. In fact, it is posited that an ice age began as a result of the impact and dust. If you look at major volcanic eruptions over the past few hundred years you can see the same phenomenon occurring with regard to temperatures.