Why did dinosaurs not survive for long ...?

Answer 1

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. And 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 (said to have become extinct millions of years ago) avoided detection until just recently.

Answer 2

Not survive for long? Humans should survive half so long as dinosaurs. Humans have been around for something like 200,000 years, depending on your definition of "human." Dinosaurs survived for something like 65,000,000 years, again depending on the definition of "dinosaur."

Maybe your question should be why they died out. And I'm not sure they have. Crocodiles are still with us, though many other species are gone.

Good question, though. Be well ....

Answer 3

Dinosaurs were here for about 160 million years ... before going extinct about 65 million years ago.

By comparison, humans have been here for only about 160 *thousand* years.

If we last 1/100th as long as the dinosaurs, (1.6 million years) we should be very proud!

Answer 4

They survived many times longer than we will. Tens of millions of years at least, maybe even hundreds. So I wouldn't feel too sorry for them.