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Of all the fossils we find there has to be at least one with a man holding a dinosaur egg or in the Dinosaurs digestive tract if they really were meat eaters...Why not eat Humans? Who is to say that ancient man did not tame some of these beasts as pets or creatures for pulling large Items?

2006-12-22 15:02:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Zoology

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The closest example you will likely ever see is the Paluxy Riverbed, near Glen Rose, TX. Footprints that appeared to be human can be seen in the same rock formation of dinosaur footprints. Recently, scientific analysis has largely debunked the evidence. Vist http://paleo.cc/paluxy/paluxy.htm for details involving the controversy.

Another common debate is whether or not ancient man recorded dinosaurs in cave paintings. While there are a few examples of cave paintings that seem to resemble dinosaurs, remember that all humans have powerful imaginations, and every culture has a long tradition of mythical creatures, such as dragons. Most cave drawings have been inconclusive because they are difficult to validate. An interesting article and lively discussion can be found at http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a7046a65c27.htm.

An example of a "dinosaur" cave drawing can be seen at
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/petrogly/petro278.htm, a website for University of California, Riverside. While I see little evidense, even in cave art, for humans interacting with dinosaurs, I do think it's naive to say that such a drawing "must" have been modelled from fossilized skeletons. Even today, most dinosaur fossils are very incomplete and it takes a lot of educated guess work to create a model of what a dinosaur would have looked like in the flesh. And a primitive "cave artist" would not know if the dinosaur ate plants. Perhaps the drawing is a hoax, or perhaps there have been dinosaur-like creatures that have shared the earth with mankind. Remember that the wolley mammoth and the saber-tooth tiger did interact with mankind and there is strong evidence for this.

But in general, there is no conclusive evidence that modern man (ie Neanderthal until today) had any interaction with earlier dinosaurs (such as T-rex, or brontosaurus of the Jurrasic era).

2006-12-22 17:35:01 · answer #1 · answered by Sentrion 2 · 1 0

Dinosaurs died 65 million years ago. Humans only apeared less than 100,000 yars ago. They never crossed paths on the planet.

If you are one of those "Earth is only 4000 yr old" wackos, then I got nothing. I can't even imagine what to tell you that you'd believe anyway.

2006-12-22 23:14:42 · answer #2 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 2 1

there are no fossils of the sort because people and dinosaurs did not exist during the same time.

2006-12-22 23:10:33 · answer #3 · answered by princton_girl 2 · 1 1

Humans as we are called did not exist during the time dinosaurs existed on earth. Humans evolved after they died out.

2006-12-22 23:07:32 · answer #4 · answered by The Garage Dude 4 · 3 2

you are dull. dinosaurs died out 65 millions years before man. i can't belive how bad our schools are getting. its just freaking ridiculous

2006-12-22 23:33:25 · answer #5 · answered by Apache Rose Peacock 3 · 1 0

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