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Originally posted by JacobNH
Originally posted by OzWeatherman
Gee now where have we all heard that one before....hmmm...
Oh yeah that Blossom Goodchild BS and then at least one new user a week preceding that
I dont usually say this about anyone here regardless, but because the OP has just tipped me over the edge....
You are a liar
Go peddle your crap elsewhere
Why would someone make ALL of that up. They'd have to be pretty crazy to make it all up, or have ALOT of spare time.
Don't just go around saying everything everyone says is complete BS, he cant prove he's telling the truth, but you can't prove he isn't. Why do most people on here have to be such arseholes all the time.
Originally posted by Ironclad
reply to post by Tayesin
Remember also that if the Dinosaurs hadn't died out, Intelligent life would have made an appearance here on earth much sooner.
Life on our world didn't get a kickstart untill about 2billion years into the planets development.
What would we be now, if that lightning strike had happened 2 billion years earlier?
Though the Pleiadies are young. If there are planets orbiting, Life could have accidently sarted much earlier. Though today, that life would still be in an early form, the planets could be livable.
I believe I have heard before that the Pleiadins originated elsewhere & migrated to the Pleiadies.
So it is possible.
If our race launches out into the galay, we may someday find a world simlar to ours was 3billion years ago. A world like that would still be very comfortable for us.
Originally posted by DrJay1975
But you also said the "reptillians" had only been here for a few thousand years. Now we've determined that dinosaurs from millions of years ago were carnivors. Now that's before your reptillians arrived. Explain your lie please.
Originally posted by JokerzReality
When was that determined? I thought it was just theories and guess work based on a dinosaurs shape, teeth, etc. Where is the undeniable proof that some dinosaurs were carnivors? Have they found a intact dinosaur where they could look at the contents of the stomach?
Originally posted by DrJay1975
reply to post by JokerzReality
Actually in dinosaur fecal matter fossils there is proof positive that some dinosaurs ingested meat.
And in intact pleisosaur skeletons they have found fossilized digested fish bones which the animal fed on.
[edit on 14-6-2010 by DrJay1975]
Originally posted by lee anoma
They don't need to.
Paleontologists have always maintained that dinosaurs were broken down into groups like carnivores, herbivores, or (like us) omnivores by design.
This is based on what we know about the animal kingdom today, the overall skeletal design of the fossil remains, and the basic knowledge of what traits usually were found in the skeletal designs of animals that tend to eat certain foods. Particularly the mouth. The mouth of grazers like cows, won't have the same design as that of a meat-eating lion. There is a reason for this.
From such studies it is logical to conclude that a Apatosaurus was a plant eater based on the design of its mouth and teeth, whereas the Tyrannosaurus would fall under the category of meat-eater.
You don't need to examine the contents of their stomach to come to this conclusion.
The Crocodile was around during that time and has changed little since.
Most lizards today still eat meat.
- Lee
Originally posted by JokerzReality
Originally posted by DrJay1975
reply to post by JokerzReality
Actually in dinosaur fecal matter fossils there is proof positive that some dinosaurs ingested meat.
And in intact pleisosaur skeletons they have found fossilized digested fish bones which the animal fed on.
[edit on 14-6-2010 by DrJay1975]
That i would consider pretty good evidence for your claim, maybe even proof. Do you have a source? Not that i don't believe you, but it would be cool to check the details for my self, couldn't find anything on Google, maybe i'm writing the wrong combination of words
Originally posted by JokerzReality
I really don't care what paleontologists always have maintained.
When it comes down to it, that theory is only based on the assumption that the animal kingdom was divided the same way as we see today.
But it's a looong time ago, maybe evolution had changed the nature of animals?
For all we know, fruit and some plant's was much harder to chew back then, and the Tyrannosaurus and Crocodiles teeth was designed to eat that kind of fruit
Not that i don't believe Tyrannosaurus was a meat-eater and Apatosaurus was a plant eater, i do, there is some pretty good evidence supporting that. But i would just consider meat in their stomach a more convincing evidence, beside from actually watching them eat meat, which of course is pretty impossible without a time machine!!
Originally posted by lee anoma
That is why you don't know that there were carnivorous dinosaurs.
You illogically reject the findings of those that specifically study them.
You have to apply common-sense a bit here.
Of course it is.
You can't learn about the animal kingdom of the past without studying the kingdom of the present. The parallels have always been there. As I said, there are animals today that were around during the time of the dinosaurs, close relatives that still eat meat and are designed to do so.
Yet the crocodile still eats meat and lived the same why it always did
Sounds absurd and completely baseless.
The mouths of most carnivores are for shredding and tearing, not cracking nuts and grinding the contents. They'd be at a major disadvantage with a mouth full of useless teeth. Today's fruit can still come in a hard shell. Who eats it mostly though is the real question.
You act like Paleontology is a faith based study. People just "believe" this is what happened and don't have any sort of empirical evidence to back their findings up.
It isn't just guesswork, they study the location, stomach contents, structure of the bones, physiology and the teeth to come to a reasonable conclusion.
Better toss out your Earth history books, then.
By your logic unless you were there, you can't know anything about the Earths past from tale-tell signs, and how it functions in the present.
Maybe you're one of those guys that need to go on the moon in order to believe you can't breath in it's weaker atmosphere. I don't know.
I'll take the word of the people that study the animal kingdom and dinosaurs full-time and apply the logic based findings or current reptile behaviors, locations and skeletal structures to those of the past. Sorry but that makes perfect sense to me.
This is off topic anyway so I'll drop it.
Believe what you will