So, I guess you believe that the reaserch done for the movie Jurassic Park was all fabricated then. Oh that Spielberg is such a liar :lol: Since grade school we (Americans at least) have been taught that dinosaurs are millions of years old.
I got this interview with Dr. Greg Buckley from
fieldmuseum I took snippets and pasted them here.
What was your favorite dinosaur you discovered so far?
I haven't discovered too many. Maybe fossils from three or four different species, all from Madagascar. My favorite is probably Majungatholus, a meat-eating therapod that lived about 65-70 million years ago.
Did dinosaurs really rule the earth for a billion years?
No. Dinosaurs are probably just the most popular prehistoric animals, and
the group was around for just over 165 million years (from about 230 million years ago to 65 million years ago). For backboned animals (vertebrates) fishes have ruled the earth (at least the wet parts), and theyíve been doing it for over 500 million years, but this refers to the success of the whole group- individual species of dinosaurs only survived an average of a few million years each.
Where have most dinosaurs been found in the world?
Dinosaurs have been found on every continent in the world, including Antarctica. North America is one of the richest areas for dinosaur fossils, and some of the best places in The United States are Rocky Mountain states like Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. There haven't been any dinosaurs found yet in Illinois.
Are there dinosaur bones in the desert?
Some of the best dinosaur fossils ever
were found in deserts in Asia and Africa. Some of these places, like the Gobi in Mongolia, may have been deserts when the dinosaurs lived there millions of years ago. Other places were very different back then, later becoming deserts because climates changed over time.
Has a human ever seen a dinosaur?
A living dinosaur? Only if you count birds as living dinosaurs, as many paleontologists do. Or if you've seen "Jurassic Park". Other than that, no. Dinosaurs went extinct about
65 million years ago, long before humans were around.
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