Would we survive if dinosaurs were still alive?

In fact, we might never have seen them at all
It's likely that, with a preponderance of dinosaurs remaining on our planet, humans and many other mammals would not have had the chance to evolve into existence. “Even though mammals thrived in the shadow of the dinosaurs, they did so at small size,” writes Switek.
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What will happen if dinosaurs were still alive?

After all, if dinosaurs were alive today, their immune systems would probably be ill-equipped to handle our modern panoply of bacteria, fungi and viruses. The chasm is just too large to make that a likely possibility.
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Would humans survive if dinosaurs still existed?

The answer seems to be yes. But just as humans hunted mammoths and other megafauna to extinction, our population growth and hunting technologies would inevitably have taken a toll on big dinosaurs as we spread across the globe.
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Are dinosaurs coming back in 2050?

The Adam Smith Institute, a British think tank, has released a new report predicting what life will be like in 2050. According to the report: "Several species of dinosaur will be recreated, making their appearance on Earth for the first time in 66 million years.
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How did Sharks survive the dinosaur extinction?

The finding published in the journal PLOS Biology also suggested that some shark species were in decline before the asteroid hit but began to thrive after it due to their ability to repair DNA damage.
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What If Dinosaurs Were Still Alive Today?



What dinosaur is still alive 2021?

Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive. These, and all other non-avian dinosaurs became extinct at least 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
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Is dinosaur coming back?

The answer is YES. In fact they will return to the face of the earth in 2050. We found a pregnant T. rex fossil and had DNA in it this is rare and this helps scientists take a step closer of animal cloning a Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs.
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Are dinosaurs still alive in the ocean?

For millions of years, reptiles dominated the Earth. Many that dwelled on land were dinosaurs. But no dinos swam in the seas.
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Are there real sea monsters?

Mythic Kraken

Hundreds of years ago, European sailors told of a sea monster called the kraken that could toss ships into the air with its many long arms. Today we know sea monsters aren't real--but a living sea animal, the giant squid, has 10 arms and can grow longer than a school bus.
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Do dragons exist?

Dragons don't exist (as far as we know), but some of their individual characteristics can be found throughout the animal kingdom. It would have taken quite a few turns for natural selection to have produced dragons, but if you're willing to stretch a bit, most classic dragon characteristics do exist in other species.
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Could there be monsters in the ocean?

Sea monsters really DO lurk beneath the waves, scientists claim. From krakens to gigantic sea serpents, terrifying monsters of the deep have haunted the imaginations of generations of mariners. Now experts in marine life claim sea monsters might actually exist.
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Can dinosaur DNA be recovered?

Dig up a fossil today, and any dino-DNA within would have long since fallen apart. That means, as far as scientists know, and even using the best technology available today, it's not possible to make a dinosaur from its DNA.
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Could at Rex survive today?

It's doubtful. Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Triceratops for example, lived in the Cretaceous Period 145-66 million years ago (whatever Jurassic Park would have you believe).
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Will Jurassic Park ever be possible?

The possibility of a Jurassic Park-like recreation is far from possible, says a paleontologist. There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have been fascinated by the world created in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and others who are petrified by the sheer possibility of it.
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What if dinosaurs never went extinct?

"If dinosaurs didn't go extinct, mammals probably would've remained in the shadows, as they had been for over a hundred million years," says Brusatte. "Humans, then, probably would've never been here." But Dr. Gulick suggests the asteroid may have caused less of an extinction had it hit a different part of the planet.
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What dinosaurs are scientists trying to bring back?

Men are more likely than women to want to bring back many extinct species
  • Giant tortoise. ...
  • Passenger pigeon. ...
  • Northern white rhinoceros. ...
  • Dodo bird. ...
  • Caribbean monk seal. ...
  • Tasmanian tiger. ...
  • Giant sloths. ...
  • Woolly mammoth.
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Has there ever been a frozen dinosaur found?

Scientists have discovered what they believe is the first dinosaur known to have lived in icy Greenland 214 million years ago, during the Late Triassic Period.
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Can humans breathe same air as dinosaurs?

However, you might be breathing some of the same air that dinosaurs breathed millions of years ago. Today, it takes about 6 million years for an O2 molecule to be made by photosynthesis and then to react with other elements to be taken out of the air.
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Could a dinosaur breathe today?

Yes. Given the recent studies as described here and here show that oxygen levels were actually lower (10 to 15% as compared to 21% today). So breathing would be the least of dinosaurs problem. Dinosaurs might then be subject to oxygen toxicity effects, which can be lethal.
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Was there more oxygen during the dinosaurs?

The air the dinosaurs breathed was in fact much richer in oxygen than now, and is the reason why winged reptiles of those days had (as creationists never tire of pointing out) pinions too small to work in today's atmosphere.
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Can humans be cloned?

There currently is no solid scientific evidence that anyone has cloned human embryos. In 1998, scientists in South Korea claimed to have successfully cloned a human embryo, but said the experiment was interrupted very early when the clone was just a group of four cells.
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Will dinosaurs come back in 5 years?

DNA breaks down over time. The dinosaurs went extinct around 66 million years ago and with so much time having passed it is very unlikely that any dinosaur DNA would remain today. While dinosaur bones can survive for millions of years, dinosaur DNA almost certainly does not.
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What did NASA really find in the ocean?

To their amazement, the scientists discovered vibrant ecosystems around the vents, teeming with marine organisms, such as translucent snailfish and amphipods, tiny flea-like crustaceans, that had never been seen before. "With this discovery, we [came across] a whole new way of living on Earth," says Shank.
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Why is the ocean scary?

Fear of the ocean is actually one of several "prepared" fears, which are grounded in our survival instincts. Or, as he puts it: "The ocean's a dangerous place." It's pretty justifiable to find the ocean scary because of rip currents, sharks, or the possibility of drowning.
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