[_ Old Earth _] Dinosaurs still roam the Earth?

[TOG]

Birds are basically living dinosaurs. Also, Crocodiles and alligators didn't evolve from dinosaurs. Reptiles arose around the carboniferous period. Dinosaurs appeared around the Triassic.

So, you're saying that modern alligators and crocodiles didn't descend from this?

This is the dinosaur Sarcosuchus:

Do you have a more likely candidate?

The TOG​

 

[jasonc]

This is the dinosaur Sarcosuchus:

Look familiar?

The TOG​

yeah, I have eaten a few of those.

 

[Lewis]

yeah, I have eaten a few of those.

Are you serious ?

 

[Milk-Drops]

So, you're saying that modern alligators and crocodiles didn't descend from this?

They did descend from that species. That species however is not a dinosaur.The difference between reptilians and dinosaurs is that reptiles have one or two synapses and their leg and arm placements are on the side of the body. In dinosaurs, they usually have one or no synapses and their legs and arms are under the body.

 

[jasonc]

Are you serious ?

they look like alligators and well people do eat gator tail and legs.

 

[KevinK]

Yes, dinosaurs still exist. Most of them belong to my gun forum.

 

[Lewis]

My theory is that after Genesis 9 where man could eat meat, which did not happen until after the flood. Something like a Brontosaurus or some other terrible lizard would have become harmful to us and hunted us. So God rapidly buried them in the flood not calling them back nor letting them enter the Ark, which God bought all the animals that He wanted saved to Noah.

 

[Barbarian]

Sarcosuchus is not a crocodile or alligator, but is close to the line that did give rise to modern crocodiles and their kin.

 

[KevinK]

Sarcosuchus is not a crocodile or alligator, but is close to the line that did give rise to modern crocodiles and their kin.

You know a ton of biology, Barbarian. What is your backround, if I may ask?

 

[Barbarian]

Academic bum, actually. Mostly biology. I have a bachelor's in bacteriology, but enough hours in anatomy, physiology, histology, etc for a pre-med degree. I've got a master's in systems, mostly concentrating in chaotic systems and biological systems.

Nearly completed enough history for a degree. Some work in fire protection technology, haz mat, and fire investigation.

Whatever was interesting at the time. Eventually, I got married, and had to do something useful to support a family. The jobs people said "you're an ergonomist." And so I was, for about 18 years before I decided teaching was more interesting.

I've continued to study long after leaving the university. Most of what I know about biology, I've learned since then.

 

[KevinK]

Well, makes my little old bio b.s. look kind of piddly.

 

[TOG]

Proof that dinosaurs still roam the earth (or at least Japan).

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[jasonc]

lol.

 

[TOG]

I'm not sure which was scarier, the T-Rex or the hairdo on the third victim (starts at 1:44).

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[Barbarian]

Cosplay is pretty mainstream in Japan, now.

 

[YogiD2]

i had listened in school. but i had kept my opinons to myself. and here lately lookin into things i understand the school thought view but i understand more now, and the higher power type creation makes more since to me, even, if i dont get explainations fully explained or fugured out. some things are best unsaid. some dino therorys i understand but the question i have is if Noah was to add 2 of every kind why dont we have dinos like T Rex?