• Question: do you think dinosaurs were ever even alive?

    Asked by shabbatronic1999 to James, Marcus, Martin, Rob, Suzanne on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: James Boone

      James Boone answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Archaeologists (the people that dig up the ground looking for stuff) have found dinosaur bones, beautifully preserved for millions of years under the ground. They are in many museums and can be seen in their lovely exhibits. Is this not proof enough that Dinosaurs were once alive?

    • Photo: Suzanne McEndoo

      Suzanne McEndoo answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      We’ve found dinosaur bones, dinosaur eggs, footprints, skin prints, even feather prints. You can probably find some of this evidence in your local museum.

      We can say when they lived by carbon dating and by where we find the bones (since rock is built up in layers, with different layers equalling different time periods, newer times on top of older times).

      I’m pretty sure that dinosaurs did exist, and that some of them evolved into birds. Check out big birds like emus or ostriches, you can see the resemblance!

    • Photo: Martin Zaltz Austwick

      Martin Zaltz Austwick answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      Yep, I think dinosaurs existed. Some even live in same the part of London that I do 🙂

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    • Photo: Marcus Gallagher-Jones

      Marcus Gallagher-Jones answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      Yes I do. There is far too much evidence lying around to show their existence. Not only that but we have found fossils that are partway between modern birds and dinosaurs to support their common ancestry. Also if you look at birds feet you can really see the resemblance.

    • Photo: Robert Thompson

      Robert Thompson answered on 17 Mar 2012:

      I’m pretty sure they do, fossils are pretty much records of animals from the past aren’t they ?

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