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But dinosaurs still exist, right?

gators could be considered dinosaurs but it's very sketchy
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Reptiles and birds. A lot of fish haven't evolved since that era.
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Turtles
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Yeah, but I'm talking like T-rexes though.

They obviously don't. You have other prehistoric animals around, like the Coelacanth, though. However, despite occasional reports to the contrary, we've never found a living dinosaur. They either evolved or died out.

helIy posted...

gators could be considered dinosaurs but it's very sketchy

They can't.

Yellow posted...

Reptiles and birds. A lot of fish haven't evolved since that era.

Also not dinosaurs.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Turtles

Also not a dinosaur.
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Zeus posted...

They obviously don't. You have other prehistoric animals around, like the Coelacanth, though. However, despite occasional reports to the contrary, we've never found a living dinosaur. They either evolved or died out.

helIy posted...

gators could be considered dinosaurs but it's very sketchy

They can't.

Yellow posted...

Reptiles and birds. A lot of fish haven't evolved since that era.

Also not dinosaurs.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Turtles

Also not a dinosaur.

Aren't there theories that they live underground or something though? Pretty sure I saw that in a documentary. Charlie Sheen was in it.

alligators are literally the closest thing we'll ever get to seeing a living dinosaur dude

this isn't just me saying it, this is every goddamn paleontologist in the world saying it
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Currant_Kaiser posted...

Aren't there theories that they live underground or something though?

There's no such theory. Young Earth Creationists claim that they still exist in secluded areas, but that's not true either.

Currant_Kaiser posted...

Pretty sure I saw that in a documentary. Charlie Sheen was in it.

Pretty sure you're thinking of Brendan Fraser.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373051/
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Underground, impossible

Though its not likely, there are reports of people seeing dinosaur like creatures in the remote jungles of Africa
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Are fungi considered some breeds of dinosaurs? There are some crazy old fungi.

Yellow posted...

Reptiles and birds. A lot of fish haven't evolved since that era.

Birds are a group of theropod dinosaurs that evolved during the Mesozoic Era. You could say they are a evolution of dinosaurs but not actually dinosaurs themselves.
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i wish zeus was a fungi
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I was joking, people, gawsh. I heard someone say that in jest and thought it was funny.

Zeus posted...

Currant_Kaiser posted...

Aren't there theories that they live underground or something though?

There's no such theory. Young Earth Creationists claim that they still exist in secluded areas, but that's not true either.

Currant_Kaiser posted...

Pretty sure I saw that in a documentary. Charlie Sheen was in it.

Pretty sure you're thinking of Brendan Fraser.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373051/

Oh, geez, I was completely wrong about who Charlie Sheen is.

helIy posted...

i wish zeus was a fungi

Hey, fungi are cool. They literally make bread.

helIy posted...

alligators are literally the closest thing we'll ever get to seeing a living dinosaur dude

this isn't just me saying it, this is every goddamn paleontologist in the world saying it

So much wrong I don't even know where to start... Granted, I half suspect that the only "paleontologist" you've heard from is Dr. Alan Grant -- who isn't really a doctor but an actor -- and I think even he might have made the distinction between the two.
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helIy posted...

i wish zeus was a fungi

Nowadays I'm a fun guy instead of a fungi.
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PyroBlade1985 posted...

shadowsword87 posted...

Are fungi considered some breeds of dinosaurs? There are some crazy old fungi.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. How can fungus be an animal?

Could you define an animal for me real quick?
Cause there are some breeds that absolutely get there.

Zeus posted...

helIy posted...

alligators are literally the closest thing we'll ever get to seeing a living dinosaur dude

this isn't just me saying it, this is every goddamn paleontologist in the world saying it

So much wrong I don't even know where to start... Granted, I half suspect that the only "paleontologist" you've heard from is Dr. Alan Grant -- who isn't really a doctor but an actor -- and I think even he might have made the distinction between the two.

dude

the basic crocodylia form has been around for over 180 million years

alligators and crocodiles are the closest thing we have to dinosaurs

actually go and google this, because you're making yourself look stupider than usual

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodilia

The Crocodilia (or Crocodylia) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 83.5 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period (Campanian stage) and are the closest living relatives of birds, as the two groups are the only known survivors of the Archosauria. Members of the order's total group, the clade Pseudosuchia, appeared about 250 million years ago in the Early Triassic period, and diversified during the Mesozoic era. The order Crocodilia includes the true crocodiles (family Crocodylidae), the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), and the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae). Although the term 'crocodiles' is sometimes used to refer to all of these, crocodilians is a less ambiguous vernacular term for members of this group.

ffs dude
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PyroBlade1985 posted...

Squirrel: A fuzzy little rodent that likes nuts. Squirrel are NOT grown in dank dark areas.

So worms aren't animals?

helIy posted...

Zeus posted...

helIy posted...

alligators are literally the closest thing we'll ever get to seeing a living dinosaur dude

this isn't just me saying it, this is every goddamn paleontologist in the world saying it

So much wrong I don't even know where to start... Granted, I half suspect that the only "paleontologist" you've heard from is Dr. Alan Grant -- who isn't really a doctor but an actor -- and I think even he might have made the distinction between the two.

dude

the basic crocodylia form has been around for over 180 million years

alligators and crocodiles are the closest thing we have to dinosaurs

actually go and google this, because you're making yourself look stupider than usual

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodilia

The Crocodilia (or Crocodylia) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 83.5 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period (Campanian stage) and are the closest living relatives of birds, as the two groups are the only known survivors of the Archosauria. Members of the order's total group, the clade Pseudosuchia, appeared about 250 million years ago in the Early Triassic period, and diversified during the Mesozoic era. The order Crocodilia includes the true crocodiles (family Crocodylidae), the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), and the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae). Although the term 'crocodiles' is sometimes used to refer to all of these, crocodilians is a less ambiguous vernacular term for members of this group.

ffs dude

Arguing that they were alive in the same period doesn't make them dinosaurs. Again, the Coelacanth exists in an arguably more unchanged state and has often been used as the basis for the erroneous claim that dinosaurs may still be alive somewhere.
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Zeus posted...

Arguing that they were alive in the same period doesn't make them dinosaurs.

helIy posted...

gators could be considered dinosaurs but it's very sketchy

helIy posted...

the closest thing

helIy posted...

alligators and crocodiles are the closest thing we have to dinosaurs

saying "closest thing we have to dinosaurs" is a very important distinction that you seemed to have ignored.

also, yes. if something was a dinosaur when there was dinosaurs, that makes them a dinosaur. like i completely can't figure out your logic in tryng to suggest otherwise.
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Currant_Kaiser posted...

But dinosaurs still exist, right?

it depends on what you mean by that. The everyday use of the word "dinosaur" means something different than when scientist use it.

take this phylogenetic tree for example:

http://www.bio.miami.edu/dana/pix/amniote_phylogeny.jpg

the aves/birds are classified as dinosaurs, and obviously birds are extant so therefore dinosaurs are still extant.

However, most non-science folk believe that all dinosaurs are giant reptiles.

shadowsword87 posted...

Could you define an animal for me real quick?
Cause there are some breeds that absolutely get there.

fungi are not animals. animal cells do not have a cell wall, which fungi do have. fungi and animals are different "branches" on the tree of life.

They exist as fossil remains and plastic figurines
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