Is it maybe possible Dinosaurs could've of lived with man?

Question

if not. why?

Answer 1

Not only possible, it is factual. God created both dinosaurs and man at the same time, 6-12 thousand years ago. Some religions, like evolution, teach that it is not possible, because of the millions of years theory, but science doesn't follow along the lines of those fairy tales. Science supports a young earth and creation of man and animals together.

Answer 2

The Age of the Dinosaur was pretty much void of any other higher animal form. The fossil records show clearly when mammals began to become dominate life form. It was well beyond the last of the dinosaurs. As far as Homo sapiens is concerned, humans are a relatively young species. Human ancestors can be found back as far as 10 million years. That's way after all the dinosaurs were gone.

Answer 3

"did" or "can" ??

Dinosaurs did not live with man because they became extinct 65 million years before humans evolved. People have determined this from the age of fossils. Radioactive substances break down at a known rate, and there are no dinosaur fossils younger than 65 million years and no human fossils older than 200,000 years.

Humans are absolutely deadly to giant animals. It is strongly suspected humans helped cause the extinction of giants such as mastadons and wooly rhinos at the end of the last ice age. Elephant birds and giant ground sloths are also thought to have become extinct because of human intervention. Many giant animals are big because they live in special environments and humans disrupt nature, changing the environment and causing extinctions. The saber toothed cats which preyed on mastadons probably also became extinct because the mastadons they were specialized to eat became extinct first.

However, smaller dinosaurs might be domesticated by humans. Those which were turkey sized might be ranched like tiny ostriches. Carnivorous dinosaurs would probably be killed off however. No land preditor is immune to human attack and most of them are very rare today. Size would be no advantage to dinosaurs because humans nearly exterminated whales, which were also the size of dinosaurs.

These scenarios assume dinosaurs could be brought into the world of humans by some sort of time warp. If they had not naturally become extinct, humans would not exist today. The great reptiles dominated the earth and mammals were forced to stay small and primitive. The world was also much more primitive back then. Flowering plants evolved only at the very end of the age of the dinosaurs. Most of the herbivores ate pine needles and I suspect they smelled strongly of turpentine because of this. The carnivores which preyed on them probably also aquired the taste of pine resin. Plants such as grass did not evolve until 40 million years after the dinosaurs became extinct. "Modern" dinosaurs would have to cope with plants which are much more sophisticated than the ones they are evolved to eat. Herbivores would be particularly vulnerable to the fact modern plants are poisionous, unlike ferns and pine trees. One last thing which might be the deadliest of all is the fact disease organisms have also evolved. The dinosaurs might be exposed to dozens of pathogens they have no immunity to at all.

Because of all the reasons mentioned, I doubt dinosaurs could survive long in the modern world.

Answer 4

Modern humans evolved less than 250,000 years ago. The split from the line that led to chimpanzees was 7-10 million years ago. Dinosaurs were extinct 65 million years ago. Humans and dinosaurs did not and could not coexist.

That is not supposition. That is not a belief. That is a fact.

Answer 5

I believe so. About ten years ago, some scientists did an experiment and discovered that the archaeologists couldn't tell the difference between a bone that had been there millions of years, and the ones they had put there a few months before. It is uncertain whether or not they went extinct 65 million years ago. Who knows, they may have went extinct because we ate them all!

Answer 6

nope - unless you call birds dinosaurs. There's no evidence of any kind that dinosaurs passed the end of the Cretaceous, and that was an inconceivably long time before there were any protohuman primates, let alone humans.