Dinosaurs

[Eldritch]

Everyone knows that gay marriage killed the dinosaurs.

Just like it's currently killing off humanity. What's next?

[Cato]

I took a trip to Toronto once, a few years back, and took a visit to the Royal Ontario Museum. The place was awesome, from the cuneform tablets of Mesopotamia to the the Greek and Roman statues, but the most epic memories I've got of that place are the dinosaur skeletons. I still get the shivers of the T-Rex skeleton to this day, twas a huge, massive beast (female I believe; female Rexes were bigger than the males I believe). The lady Rex dwarfed the Allosaurus fossil that was on display, and that was no small creature.

The skull alone was longer than I am tall and had teeth the size of steak knives.

[Svipdag]

Had the dinosaurs survived, we would not have gone extinct because we would never have been. There would have been no ecological niche for a frail-bodied, unarmoured, slow-moving critter like ourselves to occupy. Humanoids had to wait to emerge, not only until the dinosaurs were extinct, but until the giant mammals of the early Cenozoic were also extinct.

Intelligence provided a survival advantage only in competition with predators little more formidable than those of today. That is why Troodon was a dead end. Its intelligence gave it no significant survival advantage over the giant predators of its time. To counter tyrannosaurs and allosaurs, one needs armour or speed. Intelligence might be helpful, but, by itself, it was woefully inadequate.

[Cato]

predators of its time. To counter tyrannosaurs and allosaurs, one needs armour or speed. Intelligence might be helpful, but, by itself, it was woefully inadequate.

Apples and oranges, dinosaurs were the most massive creatures to have ever walk, swim, or fly, but they're just a memory and the big dogs on the block and do something like...

[Lulletje Rozewater]

Just like it's currently killing off humanity. What's next?

[Svanhild]

Other heavenly bodies near the Earth.

[Loki]

Dinosaurs are not extinct. They (or some of them anyway) just evolved into birds we know today, losing their teeth along the evolutionary path.

[poiuytrewq0987]

Dinosaurs are not extinct. They (or some of them anyway) just evolved into birds we know today, losing their teeth along the evolutionary path.

Yes, however the creatures that defined the race of Deinosauros are most certainly extinct. Do we call the birds, the successors of the few survivors today, dinosaurs? I highly doubt it.

[poiuytrewq0987]

Had the dinosaurs survived, we would not have gone extinct because we would never have been. There would have been no ecological niche for a frail-bodied, unarmoured, slow-moving critter like ourselves to occupy. Humanoids had to wait to emerge, not only until the dinosaurs were extinct, but until the giant mammals of the early Cenozoic were also extinct.

Intelligence provided a survival advantage only in competition with predators little more formidable than those of today. That is why Troodon was a dead end. Its intelligence gave it no significant survival advantage over the giant predators of its time. To counter tyrannosaurs and allosaurs, one needs armour or speed. Intelligence might be helpful, but, by itself, it was woefully inadequate.

You speak as if Earth had decided for the dinosaurs to stop existing so we'd come out from nowhere and into existence. If it had a hand in such, why did it create us and instead of just recreating dinosaurs? Did oxygen levels change so drastically that it made it impossible for the dinosaurs to re-emerge but sufficient for us to emerge?

[Loki]

Do we call the birds, the successors of the few survivors today, dinosaurs? I highly doubt it.

Well, we don't call humans australopitheci either.