Why did only the dinosaurs die and not all the other animals?

Question

Why was the dinosaurs the only animals that died out, and how did other animals/human kind survived! Don't believe in evolution crap!!!!

Answer 1

Because all the other animals payed protection, yet the dinosaurs were too full of themselves--so big and strong--that they thought themselves above any threat. Ha! They learned...

Answer 2

Why Did The Dinosaurs Die

Answer 3

Other animals have died out other than the dinosaurs. It is suspected that of all the species that have walked, crawled or swam on earth, about 99% of them are now extinct.

The time of the dinosaurs, or really just the BIG ones, was a time when the atmosphere had a lot more oxygen than now, and the world was more conducive for larger species than now. Mammals were very small rodent like creatures at the time of the end of dinosaurs. Crocs and many insects survived whatever killed off many species, but it is up for argument what killed all dinosaurs off considering they were not all huge.

65 million years seperate humans and dinosaurs and a lot happened between. Species are selected for extinction naturally. It is part of life on earth. Why it happens naturally is a wonder, but it is part of life. You can argue it because peasants 5,000 years ago didn't understand it and therefore didn't mention it in thier stories that made it into the bible, but to just say it isn't so because the bible doesn't mention it is just nonsense.

Nowhere in the bible does it say that the universe was made in one week. The language "in the beginning" is very vague. You can interpret it as you wish, but my guess is that "the beginning" was a very long time.

Chew on it for a while.

Answer 4

As others have said, quite rightly, it was not just dinosaurs that died out, but it was all the larger animals on Earth, suggesting that most of the vegetation was also destroyed, or at least defoliated. Larger animals need large amounts of food, constantly. They are not accustomed to not being short of vegetation. Smaller animals can survive on smaller amounts, and do not have to wait for regrowth of shoots to be very big for there to be enough to sustain them. The same would happen today - if you remove all the vegetation in a forest containing only elephants and monkeys then as soon as it starts to regrow, the monkeys will eat all the new shoots as soon as they appear, the elephants will have to wait until there is a lot of vegetation in order to find enough to survive on. Imagine this on a global scale and it it is not difficult to see why the larger animals died out.
As to another answerer suggesting the dinosaurs were "singled out" - presumably by some intelligence- because they were dangerous. Most dinosaurs, like most animals today, are herbivores. They were large, but not dangerous as such, any more than large herbivores, such as elephants, hippos, rhinos etc are dangerous today.

Evolution is not crap - read more, open your mind, ignorance is never bliss.
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Answer 5

Not ALL the dinosaurs died. And I imagine a great lot of other species went with them. However, it all came down to survival of the fittest. And a great lumbering beast who needs acres upon acres of vegetation is not the fittest during the apocalypse.

Evolution isn't crap. Believing that we were made out of dust and come from a long line of incest is crap.

Answer 6

Actually there are numerous extinctions at the K-T boundary. About 60% of all species died. This is not even the most severe mass extinction in the geologic record.

Answer 7

Wow what a buch of retards. Why do people who dont understand evolutionary theory post in a biology group?

Mammals were small nocturnal animals living in the shadows of dinosaurs. When the dinosaurs were decimated mammals were able to fill more habital niches then was previously possible when dinosaurs dominated the planet.

Shove your bible up your ignorant ***. You can tell the majority of users on yahoo are american.

Answer 8

A dam good question, Powerpuf.
Not only did they die out, but, as evidence shows, they died out with a suddenness that is quite baffling. Even a creche (nest) of many baby Dino's, complete with their adult minders, who were all killed in one go, has been discovered. It's as if all the big and dangerous 'monsters' where singled out (ie selected) and systematically destroyed, by, what can only be surmised as, an intelligent force, just like the 'evolutionist cultists' have attacked all the others on this page, who are not 'taken in' by all that 'goo to you' rubbish, by 'thumbing them down', and as they will, no doubt, give me the 'thumbs down' too!
The whole subject of human origin (which includes the evidence of the sudden disappearance of the more deadly Dino's), needs to be looked at from a completely new angle, and drop all the time wasting theories that are being forced down our throats by both evolution and creation, blind faith, fanatics, who are completely and disastrously blocking the way to discovering the REAL truth and purposed of our existence and, therefore, our progress and advancement.

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BTW, all you fanatical, smart-rectal-orafice evolutionists, If a major catastrophy was big enough to wipe out Dinos (of all shapes and sizes, all over the planet), it dosen't take much common 'dog-****' to work out that the whole planet's life forms would have been destroyed, except, maybe, for a very few underground, underwater creatures, which, according to the evidence of the percentage that were not 'wiped out', wasn't the case, was it?

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Labsci (below)
Despite your explanation of the Dinos being short of vegetation, quite a few of them were meat-eaters. why did they not survive? There would be an abundance of food for them? And where is the evidence of their teeth marks on the fossle bones of the veggie Dinos, etc?
And 'you' seem quite blissful in 'your' ignorance?

Answer 9

Because the dinosaurs didn't adapt and the other animals did.

Answer 10

If all human died today you think all those insects and bugs would die with us? ... you have a lot to learn... read... and if you don't believe in evolution i don't know why you would believe in anything else?