Were dinosaurs real or fake?
Obvious FAKES. Those bones are made out of stone. No real animal has stone bones. They were just carved by sculptors. Plus they all have dumb fake sounding names. If they were real they would have real names like dog or cat, not velociraptor or stegosaurus. (edit: You thumb downers have no sense of humor :( )
If dinosaurs had long tails, then why do modern birds have short tails?
The dinosaur evolved a tail for two reasons. They were very heavy and some were quite tall.A long tail was used to maintain balance of a dinosaur. Essentially, a dinosaur could collapse without the tail due it’s height.Birds are neither very tall or very heavy.On that note, evolution has decide that being “tall” is a bad idea. There is a lot of fighting with gravity and when a being grows tall creates an issue with balance. There’s a reason giants don’t exists among the human species.
Small meat-eating dinosaur? About 10 feet long?
Could it be a Coelophysis? Coelophysis was a carnivore, a meat eater. It may also have been a scavenger. Coelophysis' fossilized stomach remains have been found containing small reptiles, fish, and other Coelophysis bones of different sizes, indicating that it was a cannibal. (o_O) Coelophysis (pronounced SEE-low-FIE-sis) was a small, lightly-built dinosaur that walked on two long legs. Many were about 9 feet long and 6 to 7 feet tall. It had light, hollow bones (hence its name), a long, pointed head with dozens of small, serrated teeth, three clawed fingers on its hands, and a long neck. Many sites said that is was found in New Mexico, but no definite fossils of Ceolophysis were found in any other state than New Mexico. I hope I helped!
Ideas about what killed the dinosaurs?
There is evidence dinosaurs were tricked to fall into deep pits etc, to kill them. Other life forms probably connected the fact that many dinosaurs started off as eggs & destroyed the eggs + found a way to use tools that already existed, like volcanoes powerful heat properties to demolish their nests etc. to prevent them becoming a danger more difficult to handle. Capable of killing them & their babies. It's logical to conclude other life forms could have become too inteligent. Leaving donosaurs forced to canibalize each other to extinction. If a flood made them extinct, some were very tall so it would have had to be a very deep one. Plus why didn't the smaller species or younger ones survive? They could have climbed on logs/floating debris etc. too. Possibly eat passers by on other floating debris or sea life coming to the surface for air. Climate change blocking out the sun, killing herbivores? Does fungus etc. need the sun to grow, how long has that been around for then? A comet could not deliberately seek out dinosaurs & limit the killing to just that species. Even if it contributed, other species would have probably taken advantage & finished them off. So the comet's not technically the cause in that case Deception is not just a human quality, don't believe everything you read/find. Evidence can be forged by animals too.
If God is real, then why doesn't the Bible mention dinosaurs?
It’s simple, really: the human beings that wrote the Bible did not know about dinosaurs, and had absolutely no reason to imagine that any such creatures had ever existed. Civilisation had moved past the hunter-gathering phase some while back (though plenty of superstition remained!).To the minds of ancient man, what better explanation for the creation of the Universe than “some really powerful being did it!”, bearing in mind that the understanding humanity had of science and the like hadn’t developed to the point it needed to to provide alternative hypothesis.So, to the writers of the Bible, the Genesis tale of Adam and Eve was likely one they’d heard passed down in oral histories by others (of the Jewish faith), and they wrote it down, so that such teachings might be preserved and recognised as ‘the truth as we understand it’.Fast forward a few thousand years later, and we start digging up fossils, and bones of massive creatures we hadn’t known about before, and combining such finds with modern forensic science, we realise that these things had been around millions of years before humanity had ever evolved. And so we ask: how is this possible? Does it mean the Bible is wrong?And the answer? Oh, yes. Absolutely. Of course! For were not humans placed upon the Earth shortly after the creation of all the animals, to look after them? How could this be, with T-Rex and other carnivores roaming around. Look after them? They’d eat us, if they existed at the same time. So it’s fairly evident that they came first, particularly since science has some very clear evidence that this is the case (with humanity being roughly 300–200 thousand years old at the most). So, yes, the Bible got it wrong.Everyone who suggests otherwise is doing that horrific backpedalling that people do when they know they’ve been caught out, but want to nonetheless validate their beliefs as ‘true’. Those who say ‘days’ in Genesis refer to vast swathes of time (without giving a set figure), or those who suggest that humans and dinosaurs somehow lived together (as Creationist ‘History Museums’ and The Flintstones would have you believe!).Remember: the Bible is designed to place God at the pinnacle of all, but humanity second thereafter, as a ‘special creation’. And humans simply didn’t know about dinosaurs when the Bible was written. It is, therefore, a reflection of ignorance corrected in modern times, and a statement of antiquated belief maintained at a time when we did not know better.
Let's say humans did exist at the time of dinosaurs, how tall would they be?
Contrary to popular belief, Carbon Dioxide is not poisonous. In order for dinosaurs to be as large as they were, there needed to be fauna large enough to support them. It must have been a breath-taking sight. Everything was huge.The atmosphere was mixed a little differently. Nitrogen happens to possess the molecules necessary for moving oxygen. The faster, and the more oxygen that can move from the heart and brain to the extremities, the larger the living organisms can be.Mammals were in early stages of development and in order to survive they burrowed underground. I wrote a thesis that was well received that explains why mammals are so much closer to their young than the Sauropods were. I believe it has something to do with proximity. Let’s say you have a small group of mammals that resemble modern squirrels but have he jawline of our current mammals. These critters, were clearly no match for any of Sauropods but the development of front limbs enabled them to dig and burrow.Once underground, the mammals have just a small space to raise their young. I think that this was a contributing factor in why mammals are closer to their young than reptiles are. The Sauropods simply had so much space that it was easy to leave the mother and trek off on their own. After all, even a young newborn dinosaur competes with mom for food.That said, the size of mammals has fluctuated over time. Compared to modern African elephants, a Mammoth was three times its size. But most mammals aren’t greatly different in size, and in fact some grew large over the passage of time. There is no real way to answer your question because of all the factors involved. Size requires bone structure to support the weight and environment. You have to take into account that climatology plays an important role in human development.So if I was pinned down to answering this question, I’d say that humans - had they been alive 80-million years ago - wouldn’t have been any taller than they are today and in fact, may well have been much shorter. There just wasn’t enough room on the planet for both species and we all fight for survival.I hope that answers your question!
Would large dinosaurs really have shaken the ground when they moved?
Here are the largest (heaviest) dinosaurs that have, so far, been discovered: Argentinosaurus- 110 tons Sauroposeidon- 60 tons Spinosaurus- 7 tons Bruhathkayosaurus- 200 tons Shantungosaurus- 15 tons Futalognkosaurus- 75 tons Amphicoelias- 125 tons Zhuchengosaurus- 15 tons Antarctosaurus- 70 tons T-Rex- 6 tons Diplodocus- 25 tons Here's some weights of heavy things that are around us now (to compare to): School bus- 7 tons African elephant- 4.6 tons Blue whale- 150 tons Freight train car (empty)- 35 tons I dare say, if those dinosaurs were running around or fighting, the earth would shake! A T-Rex sure would shake the ground at times, 6 tons is heavy enough to cause some quaking! I do think the carnivores had the ability to walk/stalk slowly and quietly, but running would definitely shake the ground! I have to imagine that with all of the other giant dinosaurs, the predators didn't have to be as quiet all of the time.