Would dinosaurs have been colorful before flowering plants existed?
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Most bright colors in animals is not for camaflage, but for warning- Brightly colored bees, wasps, frogs, etc are that way to warn predators, not to blend into flowers.  Another reason for bright colors in large animals is for sexual display-this is especially true in birds, such as the peacock, which are thought to be direct descendants of dinosaurs- but it is also seen in mammals, such as the baboon.  The only animal that would use bright colors to blend into flowers would be very small ones that lived in or on the flower itself-there was never a dinosaur that small, so coloration in dinosaurs would never be related to flower color at all.
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This link I'll provide has a graphic of the Jurassic time period.
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As a late development of the dinosaurs Archeopteryx would have come extinct at the Cretaceous-tertiary boundary about\n66 million years ago (when all dinasaurs became extinct)the cause was a large asteroid that hit he earth off Yucatan in Mexico causing cataclysmic environmental changes.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx
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Dinosaurs died 100,000,000 years ago. \nThey're gone! Get over it.
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The Bible never explicitly says where the Garden of Eden was, but geographic hints in the text suggest somewhere in Southwest Asia (modern-day Iraq).\n\nThis makes sense, since the first cities and the first human civilization started in that region (what the Greeks called Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers).\n\nBut, it appears that humans did not originate there.  We only built our first cities there and our first state-level societies originated there.\n\nScientists who study human origins have developed a strong case that modern humans first appeared in Eastern Africa.  Why do they think this?  The fossil record for early humans goes back much farther in Eastern Africa than anywhere else in the world:  In fact, proto-human fossils can be found there that link with the common ancestor we share with Chimpanzees.\n\nAs far as "normal color", please bear in mind that race has very little to do with skin color:  Ethnic variation is more than skin deep:  Anthropologists can tell the difference between a East Asian skull and an African one, or even a Native American tooth from a European one.\n\nSkin color is a superficial difference that has a simple explanation:  The SUN.  Human populations who have lived for thousands of years in regions with intense and direct sunlight have evolved more MELANIN, a sun-absorbing protein, in their skin.  Melanin is like natural sunblock, and it makes your skin darker.\n\nEuropeans are descended from nomadic tribes that wandered in some of the most sunless and desolate places on earth during the last Ice Age.  Without sunlight penetrating the skin, the body cannot create Vitamin D.  Without vitamins or fortified milk to drink, they literally became sick.  Those with lighter skin had an advantage and the population very quickly lost much of the melanin in their bodies:  They lost it in their skin (white skin), their hair (blonde or red hair), and even in their eyes (blue eyes are the result of very little melanin in the iris).\n\nNature has not decreed a "normal" skin color.  Evolution is relentlessly practical:  The best skin color is the one that works best for the local environment.\n\nIn our modern era of sunblock, indoor living, heavy clothing, and vitamin-enriched food, skin color has no meaning except to help indicate where most of your ancestors came from.\n\nA few words about the Bible:  Surgery was performed by human beings THOUSANDS of years before the Bible was written.  We know this because we find skeletons quite often with evidence of dental surgery, skull trepanning (drilling holes in the skull to relieve fluid pressure on the brain), and we also find other kinds of evidence of other surgical procedures.\n\nAs far as "scheduling", just take a look at Stonehenge:  This was built about 10,000 YEARS before the Bible was written and it is essentially a religious ceremonial site that also happens to be an accurate calendar (the ancient Celts were great astronomers and they sighted certain stars by means of those big stones and could therefore predict seasonal changes).\n\nI could go on and on, but I have to end by making a point about the gay thing:  Yes, male and female exist for a reason and that reason has EVERYTHING to do with reproduction.  So, when heterosexuals have sex while using birth control, they are also committing an unnatural act -- according to your logic.  It is also "horrible" for a sterile woman or an infertile man to have sex with anyone.\n\nI think it is clear that YOU are the one "asking questions that will only raise more and still never gets it".
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Perhaps... the weather during the early part of the Cretaceous was warmer than today (and more uniform.)  I'm actually in the process of writing a paper exploring the possibility of hadrosaur hibernation in northern Alaska.\n\nI took a tour of a dinosaur resource center today.  The tour guide said that ability to adapt is what saved KT survivors.  Crocodiles can go months without eating.  Birds migrate.  Fish could swim to deeper water.\n\nIt is still highly debated to what caused the Cretaceous Tertiary extinction.
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Crocadiles...\n\nSupposing that an impact was the cause of the dinosaur's demise, it would not have been an imediate death.  \n\nAn impact would have thrown dirt into the upper reaches of the atmosphere.  The Sky would have been dark day gray for a long time, and the Earth would have grown cold for years...\n\nThose animals that needed the most food would have died first, and in that order of sucession until the only survivors would have been the small scavengers.  The dinosaurs that could feed on the starved carcasses of the dead.\n\nAnd so the decendents of those survivors have had to continue to evolve to survive this colder and crueller Earth.  \n\nThe would have needed to develop an insulating layer...  Some will tell you the Birds evolved from those survivors, and if they are right then those feathers are a post-Impact survival trait...\n\nThe question has to be if there was an intelligent races of Dinosaurs...  I mean, if we suffered an equally destructive impact today, we wouldn't have the forewarning to see it coming even now...  How much of humanity would survive?  Forty Years of darkness and artic cold...
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Most lizards are green, probably for camouflage.\n\nSince dinosaurs are lizard-like, they are expected to be green.\n\nHowever, dinosaurs are expected to be a variety of colors, green does not have much of an advantage. Lizards, though primarily green, can have a variety of colors or be able to change colors.\n\nAlso, it's easier to imagine a green dinosaur then a bright pink dinosaur. :D
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Whoa! slow down, there is fossil evidence a transition from reptiles and birds. Most famously Archeopteryx with reptilian skull, teeth, digits, claws, vertebrae, sternum, ribs, pelvis, tail, and mainly unfused bones, and a few bird traits like a wishbone, wings and feathers!! In older sediments, there are theropod dinosaurs with skeletal similarities to Archeopteryx. In younger sediments, there are several fossils with more birds-like traits, such as Sinornis and Shenzhouraptor and dozens more (wikipedia "fossil birds").\n\nFossils of scales and feathers are very very rarely preserved. Imprints of the Archeopteryx feathers are only preserved because the fossils are embedded in very rare, very fine limestone that used to be used in lithography. It is unreasonable to demand fossil evidence of a transition between scales and feathers. That said, there are several theropod fossils with feathers that have been recently discovered in a fine Chinese deposit, things like Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx and Beipiaosaurus.\n\nBut sure, every detail of the the transition from reptiles to birds isn't documented. Other than demanding an excessive amount of evidence, I really don't know what arguments you can use, I don't think there are any true ones. But you might find some convincing sounding ones on Creationist propaganda websites. It depends on your audience.
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I think through evolution and weather changes, the neandrithals migrated to different parts of the world like dinosaurs.  Some cultures evolved faster than others and some were delayed through difficulties with reproducing at higher rates and also lack of technilogical information.
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ask a christian or a muslim then you would know that no dinosaur was more than 6000 years old :D\nother than that i don't really know :-<
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Humans came a long time after dinosaurs, Apart from the Flintstones. and if you wanna know what your ancestors looked like , ME
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No. The basic geological column was first realised by creationists such as Rev. Sedgewick and William Smith, following logical rules such as the principle of superposition (sediments were deposited on top of older sediments). They observed that layers of different ages contained some different fossils which could aid in recognising the layers, without always having to physically trace them along. This was well before the Origin of Species.\n\nNowdays, the geological column is dated by absolute radiometric methods (eg. Uranium-Lead and Potassium-Argon dating). There are hundreds of radiometrically-dated tie-points in the geological column. Index fossils, along with other methods such as magnetostratigraphy, are used to correlate, relatively, between different locations, and to the radiometrically-determined time scale.
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Lots. Recently there are several theropod fossils with feathers discovered in a fine-grained Chinese deposit, things like Sinosauropteryx, Caudipteryx and Beipiaosaurus (look them up on wikipedia). These are younger than the famous Archeopteryx, which has a reptilian skull, teeth, digits, claws, vertebrae, sternum, ribs, pelvis and tail, and a few bird traits like a wishbone, wings and feathers. However, older theropods and Archeopteryx have many similar skeletal features and the feathered therapods add further support to the relationship. In younger sediments than Archeopteryx, there are several fossil species with more birds-like traits, such as Sinornis and Shenzhouraptor and dozens more (wikipedia "fossil birds").
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It is not unlikely that large creatures similar to dinosaurs of the past could evolve from present day reptiles, but mankind will have long been extinct by then.\n\nEDIT: I just remembered a television show called "The Future Is Wild." One of the episodes hypothesizes what they call a "toraton," a sauropod-like creature evolved from tortoises. This isn't some crackpot Hollywood concoction - There were some very reputable biologists behind the show, and they think it's possible.
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The popei plant came around right as the dinosaurs were going extinct... most dinosaurs has really small nasal cavities...\nmakes you think....
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It doesn't.  The dinosaurs existed millions of years before mankind. They died off around 65 million years ago.