Are dinosaurs reptails?
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I know that dinosaurs are most closely related to birds...but in answering this question i found that birds are reptiles! Who knew? So the answer is yes.
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A. Could we have real dinosaurs somewhere?\nAs ttocsewol pointed out, the biggest problem of cryptozoology is that there is not enough space to hide thousands of dinosaurs. If there are fewer, the species is quite vulnerable to extinction.\nOne exception: there is enough space in the ocean. We have just recently discovered some pretty large shark species. However, this means that the dinosaur in question has to be giving birth rather than laying eggs, much like Ichtyosaurus dis. However, marine reptiles of Mesosoic era (Plesiosaurs, Mesozaurs, Ichtyosaurs and so on) are not dinosaurs in strict sense of the word, but are distantly replated to them.\n\nB. Living descendants and relatives of dinosaurs.\nTurtles, crocodiles, lizards and other surviving reptiles are also quite removed relatives of dinosaurs. Birds, however, are direct descendants of theropod dinosaurs.\nBe careful around that chicken.
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Since dinosaurs are believed to be reptiles and birds, then yes, all would have been hatched from eggs.
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not completely especially the leg bones. to carry that much weight they would break to easy. however the wings might be since they are no longer used. but modern birds to have the characteristics of dinosaurs that being hollow bones which also means that dinosaurs may have been warm blooded like birds.
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Reptiles\nAmphibians\n"mammal-like reptiles" (reptiles who'se outer jaw bones had migrated to become ear bones)\nMammals (in the final dinosaur age, the Jurassic)\nInsects\nArachnids
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Ginormous, naturally. I wonder, if you put them all together, how tall he would be? Taller than your house? Would his head be in the clouds?\n\nBut you asked how big the bones would be, not the Ginormosaurus himself. \n\nSo let me think .... ah, I have thought. \n\nGinormosauruses have arms and legs and hands and feet rather like we do, so let us say that we found a bone that was just as tall as you. \n\nWhere do you think it would come from? Would it be a leg bone? Might it be an arm bone? \n\nWrong! It is a bone from the very tip of the Ginormosaurus' little finger ... and it is as tall as you are! Think how big his little finger would be (this is just the tip bone, where the claw is)! Now think how big his hand must be ... and his arm ... and his leg .... and his whole body! I think your Ginormosaurus would REALLY touch the clouds!\n\n(I am really rather glad that there are no Ginormosauruses in the world today.)\n\nI have a question for you:\n\nQ: If you see a dinosaur with it's eyes shut, what is it's name?\n\n...\n\n...\n\n...\n\nA: A Doyouthinkhesaurus\n\n(Maybe you knew that already)
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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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Actually, there's a very simple explanation.\n\nDinosaur fossils have been around for tens of millions of years.  They include fossilized bones and teeth, but also fossilized impressions of skin and footprints.  \n\nThousands of years ago, our ancestors stumbled uppon such fossils just as we do today.  They knew nothing about bones turning to rock and they certainly had no idea about the age of these things.  The fossils could have been a month old or a decade.  Still, they never saw any living dinosaurs.\n\nThey made the best assumption that they could - there were huge lizard beasts that used to be common but now were rare.  All of them - some with feet, some without, some with wings, some without - got lumped together, thrown into the blender of folklore and came out as dragons.\n\nAnd since dinosaur fossils are everywhere on earth, dragon myths are everywhere as well.\n\nNow, doesn't that make sense?
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Dinosaurs are not mentioned in the bible. Read this:\nhttp://www.bibleandscience.com/science/dinosaurs.htm
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My grandmother, who is hardcore Southern Baptist, says the dinosaurs did not exist ever, that they were just bones planted by someone to support a fantasy. She also doesn't believe space exists.... I don't ask her questions anymore.
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It is theoritically possible to clone a dinosur from its bones, however it would have to be recent bones to still have marrow cells in the, and since no dinosaurs have died recently then no, it is not practically possible. Plus, you would have to have a surrogate mother large enough to carry a dinosaur feutus to full term.
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Yes, in China I believe.\n\nDo remember, though, that the difference between a dragon and a dinosaur may essentially be nil (although my nephew knows that a dinosaur has its hands included in its wings, but a dragon has wings AND arms!).  \n\nI sincerely doubt that the fossil they found was an animal that breathed fire.
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There is no way that we can be 100% certain if they were warm or cold blooded.  Based on the paleontological evidence such as the structure of their bones, their rates of growth, evidence of feathers, etc. most paleontologists believe that at least some dinosaurs were warm blooded.  Birds are warm blooded and if dinosaurs are, in fact, the ancestors of birds, then most likely dinosaurs (or at least those direct ancestors of birds) were warmblooded too.\n\n"Warm blooded" and "cold blooded" are generally considered archaic as there are more than just the two methods of thermo-regulation.  However, in gernal, "cold blooded" refers to an animal who's body temperature is not constant, whereas "warm blooded" animals maintain a constant body temperature.
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Science explains more. No where in the bible does it mention dinosaurs. Or ape like people
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Most dinosaurs are extinct. The rest just got smaller & more adaptable. All reptiles are descendants from dinosaurs. Crocodiles, Alligators, lizards, snakes, turtles, tortoises, Komodo Dragons are "living" dinosaurs.\nNot counting the stuff that lives in interior (unexplored) africa and the amazon rain forest, and the loch ness monster, which is a pleiosaur or something.\n\nDinosaurs died out a while back. A huge meteor smacked into earth- you can see the impact crater from the hit in Arizona or Russia- the evidence is that earth takes a world-killer on the chin once every 10,000 years or so- which means we're about due for another one. \nThe meteor impact threw up a huge amount of ash and dirt- like when a volcano blows, or after an atomic weapon is used, and blocked out the sun's heat from earth, what they call "nuclear winter". The earth cooled and went into an ice age until all the dust and ash had settled back down from the atmosphere. Since reptiles & dinosaurs & dragons are all cold blooded, they went into hibernation and most died off. Only the smallest and most adaptable survived.\n\nIf it hadn't been for this, mammals would never have evolved into higher life forms, because we kept getting eaten by dinosaurs and dragons.
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It doesn't work like that.  \n\nWe're going to have to back up a long ways so you can understand first how evolution works, then I can answer your question.\n\nOkay.  The dinosaurs didn't "turn into" birds.  Most of them died out due to massive climate changes that took millions of years.  Some smaller dinosaur species gradually, again over millions of years, evolved into avians.  \n\nOther reptiles are still around today, but in forms that can effetively compete with mammals, all of which started from a small rodent-like creature that coexisted with the dinosaurs.  After the dinos died out, this mammal evolved into the millions of mammalian species we see today, again over a period of perhaps 200 million years.\n\nSome of these mammals evolved into primates; some of these primates evolved into hominids, and some hominids evolved into homo sapiens.  The rest died out because they could not effectively compete against existing species.  "Survival of the Fittest" and all that.  Many primate species survived to evolve into the thousands of different kinds of primates we see today.\n\nIt's actually quite elegant, when you see the pattern clearly.
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The first dinosaurs appeared about 230 million years ago, during the Triassic Period.\n\nThe dinosaurs became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period,  65 million years ago. \n\nSo the answer is 230-65 = 165 million years. \n\nSome scientists believe that direct decendants of dinosaurs still exist. We call them birds.