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Did the dinosaurs live?

Deltadromeus

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Know I know what you're thinking "the dinosaurs are dead. They were killed when the asteroid hit the earth." Or "they lived sixty five million years ago. They couldn't possibly still be alive." But I'm not talking about alive today, but millions and millions of year after the impact. I wonder. The birds didn't die out when the meteor hit, and the dinosaurs didn't die instantly, but over another couple years, food ran out and they died. The birds and mammals didn't die out though, and they flourished, so then why didn't the small dinosaurs do the same? The raptors where small enough to go off of lizards, which where still alive, and small mammals too. They where smarter then everything else, and had everything mammals and birds had minus flight and maybe burrows, but I bet the dinosaurs could dig too. Raptors and Troodons are small and fast. They are smart and have the vision of an Halk, with night vision like an owls'. they also had feathers to keep them warm. Over time they could become solitary and smaller, more suited for dwindling food. I bet that they could live at least ten million more years or more after the meteor hit the earth. Assuming they didn't all die out instantly. Or that plauge killed them all. That poses another question, why did the fish survive and not the plesiosaurs or the pliosaurs. Well, I think some of the smaller icthiosaurs and plesiosaurs lived. Ceolacanth lived, and I think the smaller marine reptiles did too. Do they still live today, I don't think so, but it is possible. I may as well state my opinion and say that Megalodon, or at least some giant shark, is alive in our waters. But I don't think that a pterosaur or dinosaur is still alive, and I want you all to know that.

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There have been reports of plesiosaur like animals swimming around lakes and oceans, so anythings possible some of the smaller dinosaurs as many have mentioned probably turned into birds like gallomimus and compsognathus to name a few, of course that's just based on scientific theory. There is one species that is alive today though, not sure if you'd consider it a dinosaur or not but it did live millions of years ago alongside them, here's the link. http://www.livescience.com/2396-fastest-evolving-creature-living-dinosaur.html Even if it's not a dinosaur, it still counts as a prehistoric reptile, I mean, alligators and crocodiles were around at the time too afterall.
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No, it's a lizard. But definitely a "living fossil." I see no reason why smaller dinosaurs could have survived after the extinction. Now, I have no idea about marine reptiles. I was gonna say they'd need to surface for air, but so do sea turtles and they survived. Unless all dinosaurs died instantly, unlikely, I'm sure raptors and other small dinosaurs survived for a few million years or so. Perhaps a handful of larger one's did as well, but it's more unlikely. After a little while, giant carnivorous dinosaurs reappeared in the form of Terror Birds. They may not have been non-avian dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus or Triceratops, but they were deadliest avian-dinosaurs of all time. [img]http://www.abc.net.au/beasts/evidence/prog5/images/evi_phorusrhacos_large.jpg[/img]
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Well of course they would have to surface. I'm not saying that there alive today. Crocodiles breath air, they lived. Birds breathed air, they lived. I don't see your point on that exactly. And I really wasn't talking about birds, I'm talking about dinosaurs. Those are two different things. They are similar, but dinosaurs are dinosaurs and birds are birds. Just like how Giganotosaurus evolved into Mapusaurus. It doesn't mean that Giganotosaurus is a Mapusaurus, it just means it evolved into one.

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That was not my point either ;)
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What is your point? I'm bad at figuring stuff like this out.

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As far as the air-breathing thing goes, I was gonna say perhaps the marine reptiles had to stay close the surface and shallow water, making them vulnerable to the extinction. But like I said, sea turtles would have to breath air and they survived. As far as the bird thing, I just wanted to point out dinosaurs did continue living as top predators for a long time. Not the non-avian dinosaurs, but the avian dinosaurs(birds).
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we tried to get a terror bird in real life... it required an ostrich an eagle, a chicken, and terror bird DNA... poor intern billy.... as tradition here at FBR we will be burying him in the breakroom... billy will be missed... anyways, Its highly possible that they have and did survive, they survived about (now this is the legacy of things we call "dinosaurs") well its hard to tell when... but you could say... since the beginning of time... They've survived so many extinctions before, just like humans... i have little doubt they did not survive

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Maybe a few million years after they were thought to have gone extinct some bigger non avian dinosaurs survived, but it was a changed world and they didn't adapt. Avian dinosaurs did because they could fly to a place ideal for them, while non avian dinos had to walk aimlessly in search of a good habitat.
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I just wrote an article on this subject, some hadrosaurs survived for awhile. [url=http://www.dinosaurswtf.com/terrible-news-dinosaurs-just-got-700000-years-closer/]Article: "TERRIBLE NEWS: Dinosaurs just got 700,000 years closer."[/url]

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