Why aren't there any aquatic dinosaurs around, shouldn't they have survived Noah's flood?

Question

Sharks, turtles, snakes, squid, crocodiles, etc. are not dinosaurs. sorry.

Answer 1

Um... OK...? None of the aforementioned posts mentioned any dinosaurs. How bizarre. Whales are mammals, not dinosaurs. Sharks are fish, not dinosaurs. Squid are cephalopods, not dinosaurs. Snakes, turtles, lizards, crocodiles, and salamanders are not dinosaurs, they belong to completely different subcategories within Reptilia! Jeez. And Loch Ness Monster, like Puff the Magic Dragon, is a legend.

And the claim that dinosaurs are just "big reptiles" is a patently absurd one; dinosaurs have fundamental and massive structural differences from other reptilian animals. In fact, the two groups of animals that are most anatomically similar, and evolutionarily close, to dinosaurs, are the crocodiles and... the birds. Every living bird is more closely related to dinosaurs than all non-crocodile species of reptiles. So you'd have a better case to make if you wanted to say that penguins are "tiny dinosaurs" than if you wanted to say that salamanders or turtles are. Their similarities are otherwise largely superficial.

Answer 2

Turtles where also in the dinosaurs age. The big stuff, well who knows maybe there still around deep in the ocean. Men have not reached the deepest of ocean and keeps finding new rare aquatic life all the time. Crazy stuff...like fish that be glowing green in the darkest places. They found a big size squid not long ago. This thing was so big it could bring a small ship down. It was washed up on the ocean dead. We yet to see one alive.

Answer 3

As far as the timeline of history, dinosaurs became extinct about 64 million years ago. Regardless if you take the history of the Bible (and other religious flood stories) as literal (approximately 6000 years ago) or as an anecdote (up to 100,000 years ago), dinosaurs were long gone before that. There are many religions that mention a "great flood" and there is much evidence of civilizations that were buried under water in and around the mediterranean sea -- so to summarily dismiss "noah's ark" because you think it sounds childish is just as childish. Ancient history was mankind's version of the daily news -- just enough fact to be real with plenty of editorializing to make a point (and back then the point was religious in nature.) The story of "atlantis" was most likely the "non-religious" version of the same event.

Answer 4

No one really knows and we can only determine based upon what we find in the ground. Now the Bible is not a science text book but it does agree on many scientific discoveries such as gravity and the earth being a sphere but the Bible is mainly a book made for the sole purpose of helping man live a life that is in harmony with God's will. Now maybe dinosaurs lived before the flood or way before it who really knows, the most important part is the human family survived and we should first thank God for allowing man to continue to exist and also Noah for remaining loyal.

Answer 5

Some Christians hold to the idea that before flood there was a canopy around the earth that allowed for animals to grow larger, dinosaurs to exist and man to live longer. After it was destroyed the climate changed made the existence of dinosaurs difficult along with man killing them went extinct

Answer 6

A meteor about six miles in diameter plunged into the ocean just off the Yucatan peninsula about 65 million years ago, ending the dinosaur's rein. It raised a cloud of dust and debris that blocked the sun for over three years, killing off plants, both land and marine based, small animals, both land and marine based and everything that fed upon them, and that includes large aquatic dinosaurs. In the end they simply died of starvation.
Sorry, Noah had nothing to do with this one.

Answer 7

Dinosaurs died out millions of years before the Flood.

Answer 8

Aquatic dinosaurs breathed air but lived in salt water. If the flood was fresh water, and fresh water is lighter than salt water, aquatic dinos might have had issues swimming through it, or maybe their prey did.

Answer 9

I grew up practically on the shore of Lake Erie.
I'm not so sure there aren't any aquatic dinos around...there is definitely something in those lakes.
No worries, it doesn't want to eat anyone...it just wants to be left alone...if it is still alive, that is.

Answer 10

welp... it's like this... dinosaurs were NOT around at the time of Noah's flood... they had long been extinct...

and secondly, even if they WERE around for Noah's flood (which they weren't), the cause of extinction was not flooding to begin with... it was THE ICE AGE! hope this clears things up for ya!