Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.....or have they?

http://paranormal.about.com/od/livingdinos.../a/aa011606.htm

http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa061702b.htm

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I doubt they still live..there is no proof.

while I must agree, I doubt that any remnant dinosaurs exist on account of the low levels of evidence (practically non existant outside of anecdotal evidence) there are large areas of undocumented terrain, and the oceans themselves could yeild startling evidences as new creatures are being found constantly (and before I am burned for that, let me say I know the aquatic reptiles were not dinosaurs. )

as much as i want dinosaurs to still be alive, i doubt they are
btw, the title of this thread is reely stupid. can one of the mods please change it?

have you ever heard of birds

I dont believe in them, I just thought it was interesting. Theres nothing wrong with the Title.

I put this in the 'OMG!!! Wouldn't it Be Cool if it were True' category.

I mean, what if Nessie was a Plesiosaur?

What if the Bloop turned out to be Lioplouridon?

What if there were velociraptors in the jungles of Thailand???

I doubt it. Don't think they could have adapted to the earth changes following the Great Extinction, even if they survived the initial phases.

agreed, but still, well sorted into the 'wouldn't it be cool' category.

Just about any myth would be cool if it was true. Well exept bad ones.

Dont be silly dinosaurs exist. Look around you....

Dinosaurs? Extinct?

You just insulted about 10,000 species of birds .

Why do some people keep saying birds are dinosaurs? Even if they evolved from dinosaurs, they're hardly the same thing today as they were then.

I would agree with rare if animal to other animal evolution was real, but since it isn't, i'm going to go with this: Birds aren't dinosaurs, there's a diff.

It would be nice to come across something like in the movie "The Lost World" but there just to big to be hiding for so long. But then again look at the new descovery in Indonesia..... Ya never know what were going to find these days.

Extinct, no. Evolved beyond recocnition, yes. Birds are sweet!

Im just going to say that birds are to dinos what a beef hot dog is to dead cow meet (IMO). They may not look alike but one did come from the other .

Dinosaurs are extict...their archosaur cousin, the birds, are not

Well, being that birds belong to a certain family of dinosaurs, called Coelurosaurs, they are technically still dinosaurs. All the members of that family are now extinct, beside birds.

Read more about it here:
Dinosaurs and Birds - the Story.

Birds are not coelurosaurs...They died out a long time ago...
Birds are not dinosaurs, but part of he same family, called archosaurs. They are between dinosaurs and crocs.

Where did you get this false information?
Birds and Dinosaurs are both quite distance from crocodiles, which lived during the dino age, but were not related to them besides being reptiles as well.

I have eaten birds and frogs.
I have eaten alligators and emus.

I think emus are dinosaurs.
They simply taste too much like alligators and they look like something inbetween a bird and a reptile.
And isn't that really what a dinosaur is?

False information? It is basic taxidermy!

Dinosaurs, birds, and crocs all evolved from archosaurs. Birds are more closely-related to crocs than any other animal! Crocs should even be considered reptile! They are MUCH different than snakes, turtles, and lizards.



Nope, sorry

Is the Ostrich REALLY like the PAST?

Ostrich are birds, you say, Well, maybe not! Recent evidence indicates that ostrich, and other members of the ratite family, have a lot more in common with dinosaurs that was previously thought. This evidence blended with the fact that the ratite family has very little in common with other bird species, has caused the scientific community to question whether ostrich are really birds after all!

Perhaps the Chinese know this, long before our modern scientists, for their belief in the mystical, long necked, partially-feathered "dragon" is linked to the ancient medicinal use of fossilized dinosaur bones. It could be that the similarities between the mythical dragon and ostrich are no coincidental because evidence suggests that ostrich lived naturally in China, into time recent enough for their having been hunted and eaten by ancient peoples.

What evidence suggests that ostrich might be misclassified as birds? Ostrich have no keel (the bony plate that protrudes from the sternum of all other birds). It is to this bone that the powerful muscles of flight are attached (creating the breast meat we know in chicken, turkeys, ducks and geese).

It was previously thought that the ostrich "lost" their keel as they evolved, but now there is doubt they ever had one. the ratite sternum is a structure non adaptable for flight, and is of the same sort found in dinosaurs.

Ratite DNA, or genetic material, reveals distant relatedness, at best to other birds.

Ratite sperm differs fundamentally from that of all other birds.

Ostrich skulls are not fused. The skulls of birds are fused into a solid, single structure, that can help protect the brain from mechanical stresses like those during flight, whereas ostrich skulls are dinosaur like, made up of several jointed bony plates.

The upper jaw bones of the ratite are not the same as those in a typical bird. The structural organization of the ratite jaw resembles a condition well-developed in dinosaurs, one that helped move the upper jaw to enlarge gape or mouth opening.

SOURCE

I recall no flightless birds in China...