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Benedict Arnold

Whats your thought about dinasours? what do you think they were actually like?

Movies portray them to be giant- building crushing lizards.. people who study in the field are now saying that dinosaurs like the tyrannosaurus were more like birds (not necessarily but along the lines).. Do you think that dinosaurs weren't too much different than your typical hippo, whale, giraffe, ostrich, rhino, alligator, elephant etc.?

Posted - January 16, 2017
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  • 5808
    Alligators
    Crocodiles
    still around..
      January 16, 2017 3:40 PM MST
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  • 44604
    An oops on that. Those creatures evolved in a different direction from the lizards. Dinosaurs hip configurations show a completely different method of locomotion than reptiles. I have studied them in depth (I even took a course in graduate school) and they were not reptiles.  They evolved from the same lineage. I is quite complex. If you are interested get a copy of the book "The Dinosaur Heresies" by Bob Bakker. I am such a nerd.
      January 16, 2017 4:21 PM MST
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  • well I think that there's enough serious scientists working on it to have a pretty good idea.. they were BIG.. that's a given as the bones collected, when put together make a BIG creature.. even the non meat eaters like brontosaurus.. T rex and Allosaurus were BIG and scary... Their DNA, shares features of birds.. but they weren't birds ... 

    It's my understanding they looked very different from Hippos etc.. tho there are some pretty ancient creatures about that still exist
      January 16, 2017 3:43 PM MST
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  • 2658
    Ostrich.
      January 16, 2017 3:44 PM MST
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  • 17261
      January 16, 2017 4:02 PM MST
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  • 44604
    Do some research...you will be amazed what you find.
      January 16, 2017 4:22 PM MST
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  • They wouldn't be nice but I'd take them over those 3ft. dragon flies and lizard sized centipedes.
      January 16, 2017 4:26 PM MST
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  • 283
    I think they were pretty much like this.

    https://www.facebook.com/LakelandPD/videos/10154998967960159/
      January 16, 2017 4:28 PM MST
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  • They were big, and small... But no building crunchers
      January 16, 2017 5:03 PM MST
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  • Big, clumsy, and probably fast enough to be dangerous. If I could time travel I think I'd visit a different era. 
      January 16, 2017 5:20 PM MST
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  • Well, some might have fit in with a little work. 
      January 16, 2017 6:18 PM MST
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  • 318
    90 miles from here is the Royal Tyrrell Museum, where you can see the fossils and the mockups of them.http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/exhibits/current_ex
    hibits.htm      
    Come on up and you can see what they were like.
    http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/exhibits/current_exhibits.htm
    If     those do not  work, just google Royal Tyrell Museum. This post was edited by Maurice214 at January 16, 2017 6:40 PM MST
      January 16, 2017 6:37 PM MST
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