Recent questions tagged dinosaurs

Description : In the movie King Kong (1933, 1976, 2005), why did Carl Denham want a giant ape from Skull Island when he could've gotten one of those dinosaurs?

Last Answer : Plot necessities. Hard to visualize a stegasour climbing the Empire State Building, or for that matter falling for the whitest woman possible.0

Description : What is your take on the claim that dinosaurs and humans lived side by side?

Last Answer : My take? It’s ridiculous and science has already proven that this isn’t the case. Some people think the earth is flat.

Description : Is it illegal to kill a dinosaur?

Last Answer : typical conservative police state. the boy is lucky he is not black, because the piggies would have killed him on sight.

Description : How effective would the deployment of carnivorous dinosaurs be against ISIS?

Last Answer : At the very least, dinosaurs would corrupt their children. Bad dinosaurs. Bad.

Description : Did the theories in Jurassic Park hold up?

Last Answer : You can not get genetic material from fossilised mosquitos. Velociraptors had feathers. Frogs are a terrible choice to complete dinosaur genomes. Use birds instead.

Description : What would be your plot for a "land before time" movie set during the impact that killed off the dinosaurs?

Last Answer : Prehistoric Congress is paralyzed while huge asteroid races towards earth. The Reptilicans and the Dinocrats are all destroyed upon its impact.

Description : With 21st-century weapons technology, which dinosaurs would be most dangerous?

Last Answer : Land based ones, not so much. People need to be reminded that Dinosaurs are not these near invincible monsters that movies portray them as. They are animals, and accordingly easy to kill. You ... that would give you moderate problems is dense and thick plant life that the dinosaurs can hide in.

Description : Why were dinosaurs so large anyways?

Last Answer : Perhaps because of the higher oxygen levels in the atmosphere.

Description : Are giraffes similar to dinosaurs? Or are they unique to their species?

Last Answer : Giraffes are mammals, so they’re not similar to dinosaurs. The fight scenes are pretty gruesome though. Here’s a link: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/giraffe/

Description : What are the names of these dinosaurs?

Last Answer : I think I see a pterodactyl, a brontsaurus. an ichy? something.

Description : What if dinosaurs were really our future, not our past?

Last Answer : I need to start investing in guns then. BFGs!

Description : Do you think you would've liked to have had a pet dinosaur?

Last Answer : You do know dinosaurs and humans never co-existed, right?

Description : If we did have the complete DNA genome for a Triceratops, could we make one?

Last Answer : What would provide the uterus? (We might be able to do it with a mammoth, or a sabretooth, because there are still elephants and tigers)

Description : What is the oldest piece of complete DNA yet sequenced?

Last Answer : answer: There is one problem that DNA studies of population movements within the past 10,000 years do not have: dating of the samples, as radiocarbon dating is considered to be accurate up to 50,000 years. ... if a sequence of that age has never been recovered. Wow, isn't this stuff incredible?? :)

Description : Dino lovers: Why do we still love them as adults?

Last Answer : Velociraptor cunning, mean sons of bitches all good qualities in my book.

Description : How did the dinosaurs really die?

Last Answer : Ice age/disease

Description : Some water dinosaurs still alive? What do you think?

Last Answer : so many little evidence so sorry

Description : Jurassic Park for real - What do you think about the Mammoth Creation Project?

Last Answer : It is a purely wonderful idea. I personally think they are already on the road to making an 88% (or better) wooly mammoth/elephant hybrid. They’re just not going to tell us until there is a giant mammoth stomping around.

Description : How do creationists explain dinosaurs fossils?

Last Answer : answer:I just responded to something about this very issue. There is a large sect of Evangelical Christians who think that the devil buried those bones and he also faked the carbon dating. Sometimes, it helps to see something to realize how extremely ridiculous it really is. teach the controversy

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