Couldn't dinosaur bones really just be the leftover remnants of an alien picnic?

Question

Can you prove this theory wrong?

Answer 1

wow, a billion year barbecue.

Answer 2

Let's get more specific about this theory - it could go one of two ways:

1. The Origin of Remains theory
2. The Cause of Death theory

These are not the same at all - in the first theory, the bones are a meal from another planet that is only here because the aliens chose this planet on which to enjoy their food. In the second theory, the assumption is that the bones came from a creature on this planet, but who died because of a predator from another planet.

In either theory, we need to explain why some specimens have not been eaten, why many of the skeletons are still fully articulated, why the dental impressions of those that have match the dentition of carnivorous dinosaurs, and why some at least one specimen depicts a carnivore & herbivore locked in a death grip at the time of death (see Source List).

In the Origin of Remains theory, we have a few loose ends - firstly there is nothing found in the minerals of a fossil dinosaur that cannot be found on this planet - it is all stuff we already have. This is consistent with the idea that these animals came from earth, but on its own does not refute the possibility of an organism coming from a planet that is just like ours in composition - less likely. Next we need to establish what made all the massive trackways we have so far attributed to dinosaurs, which indicated living dinosaur activity on this planet. Then pretty shortly after, we need to explain why those creatures that made them do not appear in the fossil record. Taken by those same aliens? Certainly not because they were hungry.

In the Cause of Death theory, we make no attempt to justify the existence of living dinosaurs, only attempt to explain their deaths. The question demands clarification - do we mean that all of these creatures were killed and eaten by aliens, or only some of them?

It's an important distinction - if we are to attribute all dinosaur deaths to alien intervention, then we have some serious explaining to do: We need to explain what all the carnivorous dinosaurs ate, if not the herbivorous ones; We need to come up with a way in which aliens could be present at the death of every member of a species without ever coming up in the fossil record themselves even once; We need to justify the ecological need for an external predator when one isn't neccessary now. Especially since we are speculating that this predator killed every sauropod without fail - an animal comparable in size to today's whales - and would therefore have no problem taking over from today's predators.

If on the other hand we are just talking about the occasional kill, then it becomes much more reasonable, but it cannot be used to prove anything else either way. In terms of likelihood, it is much more likely that a creature from this planet killed a creature from this planet, and short of a huge weight of evidence confirming alien intervention, it always will be the most likely explanation.

Answer 3

well since the theory about the dinosaurs isn't entirely decided yet it's a possiblity! but if aliens eat dinosaurs were in a S*** load of trouble.

Answer 4

Dinosaurs are mean to me

Answer 5

Your right, no one was living when the dinasaurs were, to tell you it was absolutely so.

Answer 6

That must've been quite the barbecue.

Answer 7

No, we clean up after ourselves!

Answer 8

Yes it could.
No, I can't argue with you.

Answer 9

oooooo...that's a great one. Seriously...this is my favorite question so far...

Answer 10

actually satan put them there duh