Dino cryptids?

Question

Anybody think any land dinosaurs still exist anywhere on the planet? If so then where is the most likely place?

Answer 1

I wouldn't say that dinosaurs still exist anywhere. But there may be - although I think this completely unlikely - areas where decendants of their descendants existed late enough to have overlapped very slightly with early human existence. This is why you see dragons in Chinese and Western myths, and hear legends about sea serpents and lake monsters like Nessie or Ogopogo. Although in this case what is more likely is that early humans found the bones of dinosaurs and made up myths about them. In the days before paleontology, people still sought to explain dinosaur bones and the rumours of the odd large reptile in systematic ways. I think that the connection between dinosaurs and dragons is self-evident:

http://www.strangescience.net/stdino2.htm

All you have to do is look at a medieval bestiary and you can see a number of strange creatures like gryphons were at the time believed to exist:

http://bestiary.ca/

I notice from my google search on this that this appears to be a pet interest right now of some sub-branch of the creationists. Wikipedia seems to be cooperating with the evolution camp to contend with creationist intepretations of large monsters in the bible:

http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Dragons_were_dinosaurs
http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Dragons:_A_Faulty_View

It being Wikipedia, who knows who has written what. I am not religious, but I would not necessarily dismiss the bible completely as a quasi-mythical source for further mention of human co-existence with some sort of now-extinct large creatures - just like any other mythical source, such as Greek legends for example.

This is clearly a speculative area that is considered up for grabs by different theorists, religious or otherwise. But if you want to know the bottom line about any literal connections between dinosaurs and dragons and the present era, though, I would read what paleontogists have written on the matter rather than what creationists are saying.

Maybe the answer really lies elsewhere. One assistant professor in English at Wash. State U. has taken another angle and says that with CGI developments in movies, dinosaurs are currently occupying the position in our minds that dragons used to. -- That is, we as humans even now generally feel the need to believe in some sort of big monster that is living in a secluded lake or cave; he wrote an article about this in Popular Culture Review 9.1 (February 1998): 17-30, abstract here:

http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/dragonabs.html

All you have to do is watch the film Alien 3, where they refer to the alien as a 'dragon,' to see that he has a point. That is to say, any idea that dinosaurs or dragons or aliens still exist or co-existed with humans, or will co-exist with humans, tells us more about ourselves -- our basic fear of larger predators and our interest in tellnig stories in which we overcame the larger predators -- than it tells us about the monsters themselves.

If you want a real example of a secluded place where unusual species still exist, consider this instead. There was a report in February about scientists finding a pocket in New Guinea where hundreds of new species were found. The animals were not afraid of scientists, having never encountered humans before:

"Scientists hail discovery of hundreds of new species in remote New Guinea
By Terry Kirby, Chief Reporter
Published: 07 February 2006

An astonishing mist-shrouded "lost world" of previously unknown and rare animals and plants high in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea has been uncovered by an international team of scientists.

Among the new species of birds, frogs, butterflies and palms discovered in the expedition through this pristine environment, untouched by man, was the spectacular Berlepsch's six-wired bird of paradise. The scientists are the first outsiders to see it. They could only reach the remote mountainous area by helicopter, which they described it as akin to finding a "Garden of Eden"." Scroll down in the BBC link below to see pictures.

Answer 2

There are no dinosaurs in the world. But in the other planet i don't know, You better check it out what is in there.

Answer 3

There is no evidence that any members of dinosauria still exist. Certainly members of other groups of animals from that period still exist virtually unchanged (turtles, crocs, sharks, etc.)

Answer 4

Rochdale.

Answer 5

Yeah, they're all over the place- they're called birds.

Answer 6

If there is one, you would have been the first know by now.

Answer 7

no only on t.v //

Answer 8

NO.