What Happen to the dinosaurs?

Question

I would like to know people opinons what they think happen to the dinosaurs?

Answer 1

Well, some dinosaurs seem to have evolved into our modern birds, but my feeling is tha the larger varieties have only become extrinct in recent times, perhaps several decades ago. Some may still have been roaming the Congo region as recently as the 1960s or maybe the '70s. Like that old poem goes, "she dwelt among the untrodden ways, and few could say when Lucy ceased to be". But if birds are dinosaurs, as some insist, they never truly became extinct, but merely changed their form.

There have been many, many different theories on why they died out. If they did not actually die out, then none are really valid. There probably have great life changing catastrophes in the earth's past, like comets or asteroids impacting the earth, which may have set off calamitous outbreaks of volcanic activity & earthquakes, or mountain-building may have drastically altered the climate in less cataclysmic ways.

But birds or no birds, I think there is a lot of evidence for small numbers of dinosaurs surviving in remote areas and being reported as dragons by explorers in historical times, up to fairly modern times. Of course some of these cases could be mere tall tales, or mistaken observations of other large animals or reptiles, but some accounts, chronicled by Heuvelmans, Sanderson and others are hard to shrug off in this fashion. Cataclysms or not, I believe dinosaurs did continue to live on into our day in "lost worlds". Sadly, they are probably now lost forever, in our 21st century world of pollution and global warming. There is a lot of info on the web on this subject for those who are interested.

Answer 2

Evolutionists say the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. How? Well, there are over 50 different theories. Let me just list a few.
-Mammals eating dinosaur eggs.
-New narcotic plants evolving.
-Global cooling/global warming.
-Loss of plants causing herbivores to starve which in turn caused the carnivores to starve.
-A supernova exploded nearby, spraying the earth with radiation.
-A passing comet poisoned the earth with chemicals.

One of the current favorites is the “deep impact” theory proposed by the geologist Walter Alvarez in about 1980. This theory states that a meteor strike caused dramatic climate changes much like a “nuclear winter” which supposedly caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other animals. His evidence was his discovery of an alleged world-wide layer of clay with a high iridium content, which is found in meteorites. Well, there are plenty of papers that talk about the problems with this theory. One, is that the earth’s core also has iridium in it that can be brought up by volcanos. Many creationists believe the flood would have caused the greatest volcanoes that there have ever been, and some believe God pelted the earth with meteors during the flood as well.

Many evolutionists though, don’t think dinosaurs are extinct anyway. The entrance to the bird exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo in Ohio had a sign that said: “Dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago—or did they? No, birds are essentially modern short-tailed feathered dinosaurs.”

First of all, bird evolution is one of the most controversial areas in evolutionary paleontology and evolutionists often disagree and criticize each other. We hear a lot of reports of feathered dinosaurs being found, but what you rarely hear, is that the main candidates are believed by many experts to simply be frayed collagen fibers, or hair like structures that could have supported a frill or crest like those on iguanas, or are on animals that are not dinosaurs, but flightless birds. The drawings are certainly not what we find; they are just the artists’ imagination. Dr. Alan Feduccia, a world authority on birds and an evolutionist, along with his coworkers have presented a substantial body of evidence to support their view that there are, in fact, no known dinosaurs with feathers (they believe birds evolved from different reptiles, but not dinosaurs).

Many creationists believe the flood would have drastically changed the climate of the earth (cooler temperatures, more radiation, etc.), and that there was a short ice age after the flood. Some creationists think the dinosaurs that survived the flood where not able to cope so well in the new environment. They also believe that is the reason why man’s life-span shortened so much after the flood.

Another possibility is that dinosaurs may have become extinct for the same reason that many animals become extinct today. Why do we have endangered species programs? Extinction is the rule. Why? People killing them, lack of food, man destroying the environment, catastrophes, disease, genetic problems, and so on. I’ve read that in the last 350 years, about 400 species have disappeared and some say the number is much greater. Countries all over the world have stories of dragon slayers. Perhaps man killed them for food, sport, or because they were a nuisance. I think we just didn’t start our endangered species programs early enough.

Another thing, is that there have been (even recently) reports of strange animals in the amazon and the congo that sound a lot like dinosaurs. And there are reports of giant flying reptiles in Indonesia, and so forth. There are thousands of square miles of almost impenetrable swamps and thick jungle in the world. Natives in some of these places describe beasts that fit with what just might be dinosaurs. And what about all the sightings of lake monsters?

This is a field called cryptozoology—the search for hidden animals. There just might be a few dinosaurs left, teetering on the edge of extinction. We are constantly discovering new species of animals and plants in remote areas. A tree can’t run away and hide and yet the Wollemi pine tree avoided detection until just recently (said to have become extinct millions of years ago). An evolutionist has to say, “No way.” But a creationist has no problem with this and can say, “Maybe.”

Answer 3

Dinosaur extinction is still a major enigma of earth history. Within the uniformitarian paradigm, the meteorite impact theory, once considered ‘outrageous’, now is the dominant theory. However, the volcanic theory is still believed by a majority of palaeontologists. Both theories have their strengths and weaknesses. The unscientific behaviour of those involved in the meteorite paradigm change will be briefly explored. Evidence that the dinosaurs died in a cataclysm of global proportions will be presented, such as the huge water-laid dinosaur graveyards found over the earth. Occasional mono specific bone-beds and the rarity of fossils of very young dinosaurs suggest a catastrophic death and burial. The billions of dinosaur tracks recently discovered provide testimony to unusual, stressful conditions. Nests, eggs, and babies are a challenge to a Flood model, but there are enough unknowns associated with the data that solid conclusions are difficult to draw. The part that impacts and volcanism play in a Flood paradigm will be briefly discussed. The question of whether the K/T boundary and the extinction of the dinosaurs should be considered a synchronous event within the Flood will be considered.

Answer 4

The dinosarus died out about 65 million years ago when an asteroid or a series of comets struck the Yucutan penninsula, creating a nuclear winter type scenario. The lack of sunlight, food, and colder conditions killed them off.
Or the environment changed too fast for them to adapt.

Answer 5

They turned to gay marriage and never reproduced

Answer 6

No one really knows for sure. I don't think we will ever know. I think the climate changed too fast for them to adapt. Something like that anyway.

Answer 7

They didn't fit in the ark so they turned to stone.

Answer 8

They became extinct.