Ok, i understand the great flood killed the dinosaurs, but then what happened to some of the aquatic dinosaurs

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such as the Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs, and the Mosasaurs

I should also point out i dont believe the flood killed dinosaurs (but many people do) I just wanted to get those people to answer

Answer 1

The "Great Flood" had nothing to do with it.

That myth was probably based upon a very localized event in the Old Testament.

They went extinct during the ice age where most of them just froze to death.

That was due to the Earths axis tilting due to a huge Meteor strike.

You need to get your facts right.

Answer 2

Icthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs, and Mosasaurs were reptiles, but not dinosaurs. Mosasaurs are most closely related to to today's varanid lizards, such as monitor lizards and Komodo dragons.

Plesiosaurs and mosasaurs were knocked out at the KT (Cretaceous/Tertiary) boundary, probably by the asteroid that struck the Yucatan peninsula at that time. Extinction events like this are always harder on sea life, since the constant cloud cover would have killed off most photosynthetic plankton, the basis for the ocean food chain.

Icthyosaurs mostly died out by the end of the Jurassic, a long time earlier. Only a single icthyosaur crossed the J/K boundary.

Answer 3

Well, I see the Loch Ness Monster wouldn’t be a very original answer…

Oh, okay I got it; Um the Earth is billions of years old and not 6000 years old and human beings did not live at the same time that dinosaurs did and the great flood of the earth as a whole never happened, so it didn’t wipe out all the dinosaurs.

If god told Moses to take every kind of animal on the ark with him, he would have had to take the dinosaurs. God didn’t say “Take every kind of animal with the exception of dinosaurs, I’m trying to kill them off.”







PS: There is no Loch Ness monster. Let’s say there was. It would have had to breed for hundreds of years to still be surviving. Where are all the dead bodies of all these loch ness monsters. Loch Ness isn’t like the ocean, we can search the floor of this lake and all around it and there are no loch ness monster bodies. It’s ridiculous.

Answer 4

Good question - some may have survived (Lock Ness?) Also of interest is the Book of Job, chapters 40 - 41. Two types of dinosaurs seem to be described - Behemoth (land type) and Leviathan (ocean going). God used them to communicate powerful truths to Job. And is there any reason that Noah couldn't have brought a few land kinds into the new world? Most were the size of sheep - none had to be fully grown. There is evidence from air bubbles trapped in fossilized amber that the oxygen content was different in the past. Less oxygen may have kept them from growing as large, not to mention the prospect of them being hunted down by knights in shining armor.

Answer 5

The dinos died out long before the Great Flood. By an impact from
an asteroid. Like the crater in Arizona, I think it is. And there are other
impact sites!
They caught a live coalancanthe, or however it's spelled, years ago. That
was thought to have died out millions of years ago.
The Loch Ness monster is most likely a living plesiosaur!

Answer 6

Um...the flood may have disrupted the food chain in a way that the aquatic dinosaurs no longer could find a proper food source. Great storms disrupt the ocean floor and mess everything up. The Flood is not my belief but I'm trying to give you an answer.

Answer 7

In "A brief History of Time", the amazing Stephen Hawking refers to his academic peers' theories of the erradication of "Some or All" life on Earth due not by a direct "hit" or meteor impact, but by a massive solar event as would be expected when a star goes supernova... We've witnessed these in other galaxies, so it seems (reasonably) likely that such would also be possible in our own. (One Star within the realm of "recent" history burned so bright that you could read by its light at night!) (I believe it was the star that exploded to become the Crab Nebulae).. That was in 1054. The radiation emitted by a star going supernova in proximity to our solar system could certainly "sanitize" the planet, and result in the death of "Some or All" life here. (Creepy!)

Answer 8

You are confuseing a fictional bible story with an actual occurance. Almost all of the dinosaurs died when a comet hit the earth millions of years ago. Temperature dropped from not much sun light and no food for anyone for years.

Answer 9

According to scientists, dinosaurs have been extinct for sixty-five million years, wheras, the biblical flood is said to have occured about four thousand years ago. There is a story on the front page of Yahoo about what may have caused the extinction of these prehistoric beasts.

Answer 10

Dinosaurs are talked about in Psalms and Job- so we know they were around. I believe they were hunted and made extinct because people were fearful of them. Much like many other species get killed by man. Also-we have to full skeletons of most dinosaurs-how do we even know they are all different animals?