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ok when dinosaurs were around were people???

2007-06-13 09:07:02 · 29 answers · asked by Leanne1988 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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Dinosaurs were reptiles, often very large, that thrived worldwide for some 150 million years and that died out at the end of the Mesozoic Era, about 66.4 million years ago.

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern human beings belong have existed for about 400,000 years, as far as we can tell from fossil remains of humans.

So there is a gap of about 66 million years. The idea of people and dinosaurs existing together is the invention of movie directors.

2007-06-13 09:25:07 · answer #1 · answered by Retired 7 · 8 1

To answer a badly phrased question, No people where not around during the ages of the Dinosaur, even mammals where not around, there where some interesting creatures that would form into mammals, but nothing that we would recognise as one now.
The earliest Humanoid remains are those of the Australopithecus genus and are named Ardipithecus Ramidus which where found in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia in the 1990's from Volcanic Strata carbon dated to between 4.389 and 4.388 million years ago. However there is much feeling that this is still an ape and not a true homonid.
As the Dinosaurs where reported to be wiped out approx 65 million years ago there is quite a big gap.

As for stupid, why would anyone call you that? Questions have to be asked so we learn.

2007-06-13 13:39:57 · answer #2 · answered by Kevan M 6 · 0 1

Most people say no. However, many cultures have folk tales about monsters, dragons, and giant creatures which terrified the populace, so it is possible that some did continue until the time of early man.

The so-called monsters of Loch Ness in Scotland, Lake Okanagan in Canada and Lake Champlain in the USA are considered possibly to be some type of aquatic dinosaur whose ancestors were trapped in those glacially-carved lakes when the Ice Age ended.

But it is generally considered that most dinosaurs became extinct around 65 million years ago when an asteroid hit the earth, about 64 million years before the earliest humanoid walked the planet.

2007-06-15 18:05:37 · answer #3 · answered by marguerite L 4 · 0 0

If you think of the age of the earth as a 24hour clock. The dinosaurs lived, say, from 12:30 to 12:45 and we didn't appear on the clock to 12:59:30 seconds. This is not totally accurate. But you get the idea. But then creationists believe the earth is 6000 years old. The lastest creationist view has the dinosaurs on Noah's Ark. You are not stupid.

2007-06-13 10:32:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

Only in the movies and in the minds of creationists.

Modern scientific thought places the last of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous era 65 million years ago, whereas the first hominid apes (possibly Orrorin) appeared, at the earliest, 6.1 million years ago - so a "small" gap of some 59 million years between the two.

Modern people, Homo Sapiens, did not arive on the scene until about 250,000 years ago - a blink of an eye in geological time.

2007-06-13 09:37:04 · answer #5 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 1 0

No there weren't. Some of the new Christians groups in America teach this trash in their Creation theory. I believe one has just opened a theme park to this effect. What they are doing is to the children is teaching them that Father Christmas did not exist, but Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden with dinosaurs.
If I was young now I would train as a psycho- therapist because there will plenty of work out there in the future.
Blessings

2007-06-14 05:15:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No. Humans and other mammals were separated from the age of dinosaurs by many millions of years.
I believe there are Creation "Museums" in the USA which take a different view but their evidence is based on cartoons like The Flintstones. Fiction becomes fact

2007-06-13 18:00:44 · answer #7 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0 0

NO despite the efforts of creationists to claim otherwise People, as in homo sapien or even neanderthal man only came on the scene long after the last dinosaur had taken wing or become a crocodile.

Aborigines in Austrialia might possibly have encountered some very large and very carnivorous Kangaroos when they first landed, but saurian relics no. Sorry!

2007-06-13 22:17:35 · answer #8 · answered by Aine G 3 · 0 0

No - the human race started some time after the end of the dinosaur era - so what we see in the Flintstones is not really true.

2007-06-13 18:25:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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2016-11-23 18:19:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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