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July 13th, 2012, 01:21 PM
It appears that the "soft tissue" is likely not original to the deceased and fossilized dino but rather more likely an intrusive bio-film of some sort that formed much later. What we do know, however, is that dinosaurs have been extinct for at least tens of millions of years. I don't see any reason to doubt the scientific consensus that, via various correlating dating methods, assure us of an extinction time estimate of around 65 million years ago.
I would say a whole lot less than a million years. Perhaps these specimens are more like 4000 years at the very oldest. The animals in these pictures had to be buried suddenly to be this preserved. B actually looks like road kill. Would road kill last millions of years? I think not.
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July 13th, 2012, 02:00 PM
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It appears that the "soft tissue" is likely not original to the deceased and fossilized dino but rather more likely an intrusive bio-film of some sort that formed much later. What we do know, however, is that dinosaurs have been extinct for at least tens of millions of years. I don't see any reason to doubt the scientific consensus that, via various correlating dating methods, assure us of an extinction time estimate of around 65 million years ago.
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What value is there in laypeople who have ZERO training or experience in paleontology arguing with the findings of experts who have decades of training and experience in the field?
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July 13th, 2012, 02:16 PM
How do we know dinosaurs are extinct?
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July 13th, 2012, 02:18 PM
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I'm just glad dinosaurs aren't still tromping around chomping up things.
Or even worse things!
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July 13th, 2012, 02:23 PM
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toldailytopic: How many years ago did dinosaurs walk the earth? And how do we know that?
Wellll....There have not been any around in my lifetime so that puts them before 1967...so 45...that I know of.
Yeah...45
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July 13th, 2012, 04:26 PM
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I would say a whole lot less than a million years. Perhaps these specimens are more like 4000 years at the very oldest. The animals in these pictures had to be buried suddenly to be this preserved. B actually looks like road kill. Would road kill last millions of years? I think not.
They don't look like roadkill, they look like rock. (Mind you this is a pterosaur not a dinosaur) but it lived during the same time period.
Photographed Under visible light
Photographed Under UV light.
The "soft tissue" is after quite a bit of treatment, this is the original bone.
This is actual soft tissue that is close to 4000 years old.
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July 13th, 2012, 04:43 PM
It's generally thought (non-avian) dinosaurs died out at the K-T extinction event, 65 million years ago. As far as I'm aware, no dinosaur fossils have been found in layers younger than 65 million years. That doesn't mean there couldn't have been a few survivors running around for a while.
Of course birds are technically dinosaurs so if you look at it that way . . . I saw a cardinal in my garden just an hour ago. One of these, not so much.
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toldailytopic: How many years ago did dinosaurs walk the earth?
And how do we know that?
How many years ago did dinosaurs walk the earth?
I don't know about walk the earth but I did see one go rolling down the street in the 1980's.
And how do we know that?
Because I was there and I saw it, it was at the corner of Federal and Speer Boulevards and toward sunset that this huge dinosaur of 1974 Pontiac Bonneville 4 door hard top rolled by.
Knight I sorry for this post, it's been a tough day, and I thought a laugh would do me good.
But in all honesty I've given it much thought, so I'll throw 10,000 years out there.
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Wellll....There have not been any around in my lifetime so that puts them before 1967...so 45...that I know of.
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