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In cryptozoology, living dinosaurs are non-bird dinosaurs that supposedly survived the K-T extinction, and continue to exist up to the present day. They are often spied first not by Western scientists, but by natives, and so their existence is often considered doubtful, merely the stuff of legend.
Arguments for dinosaur survival
According to some cryptozoologists, living dinosaurs are not a zoological impossibility, particularly in areas that have been geologically stable for the past sixty million years. Larger dinosaurs that are cold-blooded (ectothermic) might have a more successful chance thriving in stable, warm, equatorial regions than warm-blooded (endothermic) animals with higher metabolic rates. Ectothermic creatures also require only ten percent of the amount of the food taken in by fully endothermic animals. Determining dinosaur energetics and thermal biology without living models, though, is a pure speculation.
The evidence advanced so far in support of dinosaur survival consists of eyewitness sightings, legends and ancient works of traditional art that supposedly depict dinosaurs. Most reports of currently surviving alleged dinosaurs come from African rain forests in the Congo, but the Ica stones of Peru (the authenticity of which is contested), bearing carvings of both humans and dinosaurs, are also occasionally advanced as evidence. The most common sighting reports are of sauropods in Africa, notably the Mokele-mbembe. However, there are sightings outside of Africa as well; in 1999 an Iguanodon-like creature was allegedly sighted in Papua New Guinea and it has also been suggested that plesiosaurs may have also survived the K-T extinctions, accounting for sea and lake monsters such as the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland's Loch Ness.
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when will these dinosaurs realize we're living in the 21st century? It makes me so angry.
kestra (kestra) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:00:59 -0000
when will these dinosaurs realize we're living in the 21st century? It makes me so angry.
@lovenunrg BABYGURLLLLLL just got on, no power till 11 pm - it's like living in prehistoric times.. i'm looking for dinosaurs
Donnette (Donnette Davis ಠ_ಠ) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:02:08 -0000
@lovenunrg BABYGURLLLLLL just got on, no power till 11 pm - it's like living in prehistoric times.. i'm looking for dinosaurs
Just posted some images from my latest book Living Dinosaurs. http://bit.ly/293bJ0
angelantics (Heather Angel ) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:15:21 -0000
Just posted some images from my latest book Living Dinosaurs. http://bit.ly/293bJ0
Bugs Facts: The largest living dragonfly lived over 250 million years ago (before the dinosaurs) and had a wingspan of over three feet.
ZooBugs_Zoom (ZooBugs-Zoom) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:02:53 -0000
Bugs Facts: The largest living dragonfly lived over 250 million years ago (before the dinosaurs) and had a wingspan of over three feet.
Fossils of dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles found in Arlington will be on display at River Legacy Living Science Center through Dec. 19.
susanschrock (susanschrock) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:34:21 -0000
Fossils of dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles found in Arlington will be on display at River Legacy Living Science Center through Dec. 19.
@Larkers aliens, dinosaurs, the living dead! You missed the lot!
Squamp_G (Ben Uren) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:56:28 -0000
@Larkers aliens, dinosaurs, the living dead! You missed the lot!
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Meta Description: [ In the jungles of central Africa are reports of animal that resembles a living a sauropod dinosaur. ]
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