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What if We had shared our Earth with Dinosaurs?

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Jon-Richfield says:

You mean, not counting extant birds?

 

Aaaahhh!  It would have been marvellous!  Absolutely marvellous!!! I can hardly read a book of palaeontology because of the sheer pain of not having such creatures around today. And as for some of the pterosaurs and the tertiary mammals and Devonian/Carboniferous insects and amphibians...

 

The very thought is heart-breaking.

 

 

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posted on 2010-11-09 08:22:50 | Report abuse


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MikeAdams#367 says:

I have enough problems with squirrels, deer and rabbits raiding my garden. I certainly don't need the occasional Apatasaurus added to the mix

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posted on 2010-11-09 18:03:49 | Report abuse

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Jon-Richfield says:

Really!  Some people (present company excepted of course <snnfff!>) are sooo intolerant! What is wrong with an inoffensive apatosaur?? They were not particularly large anyway. Most first-world houses measure more than 25m in some dimensions. And they might have made terrific livestock too; modern breeds of cattle for example are generally large because large breeds are profitable. Apatosaurs might have been marvellously compatile with aquaculture; just imagine apatosaurus steaks after a course of tilapia fillets!

If one could learn to ignore the tearful scenes at the abatoirs...

And as for pets; just imagine a clutch of frisky carnosaurids, cuddly ankylosaurids, playful pachycephalosaurids, the list goes on and on.

It might of course be a good idea to design suitable protection for statues erected in areas where the larger pterosaurs were common, but even as things are, our revered politicians surely must learn to adapt themselves to the consequences of their public offices indefinitely. Perhaps we would do best to regard any consequent anointing as divine recognition of one's exalted stature.

I'll have to stop about there; just contemplating what we are missing in the field of public recognition alone is depressing me beyond bearing.

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posted on 2010-11-10 07:49:58 | Report abuse


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