Did dinosaurs really exist?

Question

How do we know they arent putting the bones together wrong?

Answer 1

so, by that, do you mean that you believe it was possible for all of these bones that just so happen to make up the shapes of large animals, might possibly have been just a pile of animal bones resembeling nothing?

Answer 2

If an entire set of bones were found in the shape of a being, in it's skelatol form, and all the joints seemed to fit together, then it would be safe to assume to that they belonged together. I think that the odds of 400 random bones from random animals mixing around in some sort of flood or tornado and landing in a pile that has such order of an animal are so low that that itself is proof that dinosaurs existed. I mean proof, not evidence. They are probably the same odds of all the parts of a 747 jet airplain being placed in a lake, mixing the lake up real well, and pulling out an assembled 747. Not gonna happen.


There are certianly some fossils that have been assembled, however, like "Lucy", wherein the kneecap was found half a mile away, and was the only reason scientists thought Lucy did not walk upright. But if there was just one dinosaur skelaton found in tact, that would at least be proof they existed.

I suppose some of the skelatons could be misassembled. But people need to start realizing that science often consists of educated guesses, and there are a lot of things science claims to know, but really are only assumptions.

By the way, Tim, if you've ever visited a museum, the T-rex did have a leg coming out of it's ***. Well, it resembled a leg, anyway, so they could sit on it. And it's not a stupid question.

Answer 3

Because the bones are so large, no animal exists that has the same bones. It's possible that animals of today were simply much huger. So those bones may be common lizard bones that are huge. But there are some bones that don't match any known animal. So I think dinosaurs existed. The question is when, and if they evolved, or if they evolved from some other species, and how they became extinct. I think the last question is easiest to answer. They were killed by a series of events in my opinion. Starting with changes in weather patterns, then meteoric imapacts, then what was left was killed by humans, or other predators that saw them as a major threat. And possibly diseases that didn't exist before that thier immune system couldn't handle. I think the accepted theory that they existed millions of years ago overlooks the fact that Earth undergoes huge catastrophe's and that the surface of the Earth would have re-generated before a million years would happen.

Answer 4

Yes they did.

It did happen that bones were put wrongly, the first Iguanodon fossiles were excavated rather carelessly, and some bit were missing, and when they attempted to put it together, they had this poity thing they did not know what to do with, so they put it on its nose, like the horn of a rhino (I am not kidding). Later, when more bones were found, there were more careful about excavating them, and recorded their postions in the ground as they were unearthed. And it was found that this bone was actually some sort of a "thumb".

Now then, as I explained above, current digging are very careful to record the bones relative position when they are dug out. And in most cases, the bones are together as if they were still attached, that makes putting them back together a lot easier, no mistake possible

Perhaps you are still unsure? OK, how about the skull of a tyranosaur? It is only one massive block (several bones fused together). If the skull had not been smashed up to bits -- and most of them weren't -- the way it looks now is pretty much the way it looked 65 millions years ago, under the flesh and skin of the living beast.

Pretty hard evidence that Tyranosaurs existed, no?

Answer 5

Yes: like the falling banner as "Jurassic Park" fell to shambles "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth", dinosaurs DID exist. Paleontology is the forensic art of putting together those bones, some already in fossilized place.

Paleontologists intensely focus on forensic skills to visualize how these creatures may have looked....and with computer CGI and other whiz-bang programs, the job's getting easier.

Yes....sigh....in the very early days of paleontology, scientists DID get it wrong.....but they eventually got it right.

Answer 6

Yes they existed. The bones are like a jigsaw puzzle. They will only go together in a certain way. Much like our bones.

Answer 7

yes they did exist, they have evidence (fossiles and bones). Putting the bones together wrong what? should the t-rex have a leg coming out its back or a raptor that has a *** full of teeth what type of question is that?

Answer 8

Obviously, you haven't been to a museum with the fossil bones. I have. Absolutely an incredible sight.

Yes, they did; and look them up online, go to the Smithsonian (awesome exhibits there), or any good exhibit (also used to have the traveling exhibit "sue" - what a magnificent creature). Yeah, they were real. The alligator and croc - last reminants of the species.

Answer 9

They sure did. There are some dinosaur tracks somewhere in Texas not to far from Dallas-Ft Worth. My daughter went on a field trip there.

Answer 10

yes they really existed because you can still find the bones.
which i an surprised that you can cause think about it . there is no way to preserve the bones it looks like to me they would be so brittle to dig up that they would have already decayed by now.