living dinos

[melissag1921]

Hi.Thiss may belong to the light discussion forum,but my curser was closer to this.

http://livingdinos.com/rebuttaltotheskepticI.html

So,I want you to discuss this.Are you optimist or skeptic about this subject?

[iFennec]

While it would be insanely cool, I seriously doubt it. I do find it strange that two hundred persons claim to have seen something, but it could just be something they made up. While some parts of the earth aren't 100% explored, I find it strange that the dinosaurs, if they exist, only inhabit those places (with the exception of crocodiles, of course). Why not the rest?
The older quotes are not reliable, because humans were extremely superstitious until only a few hundred years ago, and I believe that everyone knows that a story always changes when a different person tells it. It might just have been, I don't know, an angry elephant in Alexander's case, and they got scared and told everyone something they saw something big and scary.

(Don't bash on me, I'm not a professor with a hundred degrees!)

[VoijaRisa]

Dinosaurs, as they existed millions of years ago, are certainly dead. If they weren't we'd see their skeletons in the fossil record until present day.

Even if these accounts of giant dragons and all the rest are to be believed it still doesn't mean they're in any way equivalent to ancient dinosaurs. Rather, the author is retroactively naming them, without any sort of physiological examination. "It's big and it flies? Must be a "pterodactyl"."

Additionally, the author doesn't even begin to consider the tendency for stories to succumb to hyperbole. A large creature of the normal sorts gets blown out of proportion in successive retelling to become the scale demon his sources describe.

The author's bullshit detector is obviously set to "off", given his rejection of evolution that plagues his website as well.

[Golden Dysprosium]

Nautilus, sharks, crocodilians, and an entire buffet's worth of other creatures have been alive since dinosaurs roamed the earth. So they are, in a sense, dinosaurs.
As for the topic at hand...it's highly unlikely. Given the size of dinosaurs back then, if it was that big, I doubt we'd only have a handful of eye-witness accounts. Think about it: something that big wouldn't go unnoticed by so few people.

[xyre_silverfangs]

Yeah, I've heard these stories before. There are no dinosaurs roaming the earth any more. There's just no possible way that a creature of such surmountable size could actually exist today. The only dinosaurs that do exists are the living fossils of today. Few people mention birds along side crocodiles and celocanths (sp?), but they are actually tied directly to the dinosaur lineage. Most of dinosaurs that lived through the last great extinction, did so by shrinking greatly in size, adapting feathers and taking to the sky - setting aside emus, ostriches, and cassowaries of course.

[kinerinninja1]

Don't listen to them dinosaurs do exsist today and believe it or not they are everywhere infact walking out side i saw like 10 diffrent species.....i am sure that u have seen them too they are called birds..............
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but believe it or not ppl are trying to use birds to create dinosaurs by taking a fertalized bird egg and altering the dna to make it resemble a dinosaur like creature and may even alter it to act like a dinosaur.........................

[Golden Dysprosium]

kinerinninja1

but believe it or not ppl are trying to use birds to create dinosaurs by taking a fertalized bird egg and altering the dna to make it resemble a dinosaur like creature and may even alter it to act like a dinosaur.........................

I don't, actually. Do you have any proof that "ppl" (those bastards!) are trying to genetically engineer dinos?

[VoijaRisa]

Golden Dysprosium

Do you have any proof that "ppl" (those bastards!) are trying to genetically engineer dinos?

Scientists (those bastards!) are. There was an article in Wired or New Scientist about trying to turn on some of the genes that had been turned off in various bird genomes to reverse engineer traits from earlier species.

[Golden Dysprosium]

VoijaRisa

Golden Dysprosium

Do you have any proof that "ppl" (those bastards!) are trying to genetically engineer dinos?

Scientists (those bastards!) are. There was an article in Wired or New Scientist about trying to turn on some of the genes that had been turned off in various bird genomes to reverse engineer traits from earlier species.

LoL @ a chicken with scales. xd

[Catharia]

I think the world is a brilliant place without more huge things that can squash me flat. Personally I'm rather fond of Tuatara's, who outlived the dinosaurs by hiding on a group of tiny islands and minding thier own business.

Oh, and Pterosaurs aren't dinosaurs, nor are the battalion of marine reptiles which were around at the time. Neither (despite what everyone may want to tell you) were Spinosaurs, they were mammal-like reptiles, not the jobbies that became mammals, but another line. (I'm tetchy about few things...this is one of them).
It always amused me that Tyrannosaurus-Rex's line became birds...especially pidgeons.

[whateverfloats]

There are plenty of living dinos. I call them birds.

[yoxyoxyo]

well, im pretty sure all the dinosaurs are dead. now, they are experimenting with the bone dna and all that, making an artificial egg, and seeing if it will hatch. but they are just experiments. i very seriously doubt that there are dinosaurs roaming the earth right now.

[xyre_silverfangs]

Golden Dysprosium

VoijaRisa

Golden Dysprosium

Do you have any proof that "ppl" (those bastards!) are trying to genetically engineer dinos?

Scientists (those bastards!) are. There was an article in Wired or New Scientist about trying to turn on some of the genes that had been turned off in various bird genomes to reverse engineer traits from earlier species.

LoL @ a chicken with scales. xd

Chickens have scales on their legs and feet, silly. And, yeah - I saw a special on discovery channel once about this. They caused chicken embryos to grow teeth in their beaks, and lizard tails from their from their rear ends. It's pretty crazy s**t.

I remember one time, Golden, when you told we were 'far from tail holes in jeans.' It's clear that we're getting closer to things like that all the time. I'm sure you're aware of the rare occurrence where people are born with tails - I'm sure that in the future, places like Biopalis (in Singapore) will have that procedure available for all people. I'd be the first person in line to get with an Felicia-style cat girl. Raaare! /paws at the air.

[Golden Dysprosium]

xyre_silverfangs

Golden Dysprosium

VoijaRisa

Golden Dysprosium

Do you have any proof that "ppl" (those bastards!) are trying to genetically engineer dinos?

Scientists (those bastards!) are. There was an article in Wired or New Scientist about trying to turn on some of the genes that had been turned off in various bird genomes to reverse engineer traits from earlier species.

LoL @ a chicken with scales. xd

Chickens have scales on their legs and feet, silly. And, yeah - I saw a special on discovery channel once about this. They caused chicken embryos to grow teeth in their beaks, and lizard tails from their from their rear ends. It's pretty crazy s**t.
I remember one time, Golden, when you told we were 'far from tail holes in jeans.' It's clear that we're getting closer to things like that all the time. I'm sure you're aware of the rare occurrence where people are born with tails - I'm sure that in the future, places like Biopalis (in Singapore) will have that procedure available for all people. I'd be the first person in line to get with an Felicia-style cat girl. Raaare! /paws at the air.

Easy there, Sparky. I'm sure the misses will enjoy hearing about your feline fetish.
Besides, I meant chickens with scales instead of feathers. You'd eventually be able to engineer something like that, but it'd be easier to just take a lizard and make some changes from there.

[xyre_silverfangs]

Golden Dysprosium

xyre_silverfangs

Golden Dysprosium

VoijaRisa

Golden Dysprosium

Do you have any proof that "ppl" (those bastards!) are trying to genetically engineer dinos?

Scientists (those bastards!) are. There was an article in Wired or New Scientist about trying to turn on some of the genes that had been turned off in various bird genomes to reverse engineer traits from earlier species.

LoL @ a chicken with scales. xd

Chickens have scales on their legs and feet, silly. And, yeah - I saw a special on discovery channel once about this. They caused chicken embryos to grow teeth in their beaks, and lizard tails from their from their rear ends. It's pretty crazy s**t.
I remember one time, Golden, when you told we were 'far from tail holes in jeans.' It's clear that we're getting closer to things like that all the time. I'm sure you're aware of the rare occurrence where people are born with tails - I'm sure that in the future, places like Biopalis (in Singapore) will have that procedure available for all people. I'd be the first person in line to get with an Felicia-style cat girl. Raaare! /paws at the air.

Easy there, Sparky. I'm sure the misses will enjoy hearing about your feline fetish.
Besides, I meant chickens with scales instead of feathers. You'd eventually be able to engineer something like that, but it'd be easier to just take a lizard and make some changes from there.

Psh. That shows how little you know. My wife would probably join me wink lol

Actually it'd be just as easy with both, cause both creatures have a direct connection to dinosaurs. Don't quote me here, however, I'm no geneticist.