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Dinosaurs living with humans?

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Cthulhu
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Message 24 of 112 (105743)
05-05-2004 9:41 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by cloud_strife
04-03-2004 3:48 PM

Of course dinosaurs are still alive today. I ate part of one about an hour ago. It tasted just like chicken.
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05-06-2004 3:33 PM 		Reply to: Message 25 by cloud_strife
05-06-2004 3:07 AM

It's somewhat of a joke, but I'm still serious. There are living members of the clade Dinosauria around today, but they are usually not recognized as such by the general populace. The present-day dinosaurs are called birds.
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05-07-2004 5:14 PM 		Reply to: Message 48 by redwolf
05-07-2004 4:05 PM

My guess as to why you don't have much in the way of human and dinosaur fossils together, and there seems to be more than one reason, would be as follows.
Humans have always lived near water for the most part; elaine Morgan in fact makes a fairly compelling case that we were originally aquatic.
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And virtually all carnivorous dinosaurs were excellent swimmers and many lived near water. So we would be finding human and dinosaur bones together.
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05-08-2004 9:33 PM 		Reply to: Message 50 by redwolf
05-07-2004 6:14 PM

Well, gee. They have long, powerful legs that end with long toes. They have long, powerful tails. They have streamlined bodies. We have tracks that show a theropod chasing a group of large ornithopods out of water. Besides, carnivorous vertebrates as a whole tend to be rather good swimmers.
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05-13-2004 7:26 PM 		Reply to: Message 55 by dead
05-13-2004 1:29 PM

I don't see how strong legs and a tail would help keep a Rex's head above water for breathing purposes.
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There are plenty of other carnivorous dinosaurs besides Tyrannosaurus rex. So a T. rex may not have been that great at swimming. Big whoop. There's still Spinosaurus, Allosaurus, Deinonychus, Utahraptor, Deltadromeus, Dryptosaurus, Dilophosaurus, Dick Clark, etc.
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support your head above water with tiny arms?
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This is something known as the "primate bias". Simply put, humans have a hard time envisioning how something can be effective without long arms. Besides, arms aren't necessary for swimming.
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05-16-2004 12:05 PM 		Reply to: Message 61 by nator
05-16-2004 10:27 AM

Besides, "Behemoth" is the singular form of the word "behemah", which means "beasts of burden", which could be considered to be a bull, which are well known for their virility.
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05-16-2004 12:07 PM 		Reply to: Message 58 by Gary
05-13-2004 9:14 PM

Also, considering that the head of a T. rex was 13 feet above the ground, there weren't many instances in which it would actually need to swim. It'd simply walk on the bottom of the body of water.
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