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Are Dinosaurs Still Alive?

Philosiraptor

MemberCompsognathusMay 19, 20134209 Views7 Replies
With miles and miles of unexplored forest in places like the African wilderness, there is bound to be at least one new (or rediscovered) species to be found. There are legends of the sauropod-like Mokele-Mbembe, the ceratopsian Emela-Ntouka, and the tyrannosaurid Kassai Rex. While these could actually exist, it is unlikely. A more plausible location that prehistoric animals could thrive in is the sea. With up to 80% of Earth's remaining undiscovered species likely to come from the sea, a sea monster isn't impossible, not really unlikely. What inspired this post was a strange picture I found of a Liopleurodon-like creature, on top of civil war era photos of pterosaurs. [img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-b72gPwz12WQ/UZh-f1HQ0pI/AAAAAAAAAJA/sF-fLxjL3iU/s640/blogger-image-933396942.jpg[/img] This is the Liopleurodon. Some would like you to believe it reached 80 feet, as in Walking With Dinosaurs, but that's false (closer to that size is the monster of aramberri. The juvenile found was 15 meters!). In reality, it was closer to the size of an Orca, around 30 feet. What strikes me about this picture is the accurate size... [img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pSCM-ctOL_E/UZh-hvrgdjI/AAAAAAAAAJY/5xBxrkyNXQw/s640/blogger-image--2009274343.jpg[/img] While this isn't the actual photo, it is a re-creation. The original was fairly famous, but being that it was extremely old and handled frequently, it sadly fell apart. The soldiers had allegedly shot and killed a large, bald "thunderbird", now thought to be a pterosaur. [img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-NIAzcVZL7vA/UZh-es-1IGI/AAAAAAAAAI4/Hw_cW1rTwFc/s640/blogger-image--117765638.jpg[/img] Another re-creation [img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dSv287hgzEw/UZh-gXvfcII/AAAAAAAAAJI/5R8n94Fo06U/s640/blogger-image-518822951.jpg[/img] I am fairly two-sided on this one. I will begin with why it could be real: the creature in the photo appears to be a rhamphorhynchus. If someone was going to have claimed to kill a pterosaur, wouldn't they choose a well known one like a pteranodon or pterodactylus (often called a pterodactyl)? Why something so small and unknown? Why it could be false? It's head doesn't hang limply like that of a dead animal. [img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-QoCztOSaiNY/UZh-gx1JdPI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/TxWbz6FuqPM/s640/blogger-image--2051135763.jpg[/img] This was also quite a famous one back in the day.
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Jhawkins1987
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The answer is yes Look out ur window u see thousands of them flying around all day , and wakin u up in morning lol Birds are classified as avian dinosaurs and dinosaurs as non avian dinosaurs ! :)
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Makaveli7
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^true about the birds^
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Well you do pose an excellent point... but thing is africa has been very well explored and mapped, But there are indeed places of the world we havent touched yet *about only 54 % of the earth has been explored... and this is true...* i do believe its the congo that is the most untouched of all the places, many of the indigenous saying they have witnessed a large saurapod or theropod "lizard" 20-30 feet tall wondering around... in my opinion... "life found a way" somewhere on this planet... we need to look harder though...

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according to scientist dinosaurs evolved into birds so if thats true than there is still dinosaurs. but these pictures baffle me if the pictures are not doctared that means there is a possibility that a number of dinosaur species could still exist somewhere. most likely in undiscovered parts of the ocean.
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as humans we dont know didly squat, sure we've got loads of research and crap... but these are all theories sure maybe they did evolve into birds, but why would they go from something thats king of the planet to something we turn into KFC ? ?? as dr.thorne said in TLW "there just theories but do you smell the salt air, feel the spray fo seawater, these things are real, a 100 years from now they'll be saying, 'those people a 100 years ago beleived in protons can you believe that??' As humans we always have to have an explanation for something... " his words sound true enough, everything we know is all theories we think are true, we have nothing real to compare them with...

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no and mabey the lockness monster may be a dino
https://www.google.com/search?q=cow+pics&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#
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actually cow lover, yes... the world as we know it is just a string of theories we've came up with to explain everything... ie big bang, solar system, atoms neutrons... everything is a theory... also Nessie is a plesiosaurs, a water type of dinosaur... and she is a cryptid as well, following up on my idea that they are still here, there are actually a total of about maybe 10 dinosaurs sightings of different dinosaurs in the congo

Life cannot be contained, it breaks walls, crashes through barriers sometimes painfully, but uh... Life uh, finds a way

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