Dinosaurs / Prehistoric monsters

PinkFinal said:
Imagine a sky full of these mofos

Flying reptile: Remains of scary prehistoric creature discovered - BBC News
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As a kid, I loved dinosaurs. I grew up in the San Francisco bay area - and some of my favorite memories were that of visiting the San Francisco Exploratorium. So many fascinating displays - and dinosaurs!!!

My parents purchased some delightful toy dinosaurs for me and my siblings to play with - T. Rex (of course!), Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Brontosaurus and others.

Later in life I became fascinated with mass extinction events. And my favorite extinct animal shifted from T. Rex, to the Gorgonopsia - fearsome top predators and mammal precursors predating dinosaurs. Likely they were intelligent, thoughtful but aggressive beings - killed off by the Permian-Triassic extinction event - likely due to runaway volcanic activity.

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Dage said:
Actually birds are dinosaurs, similarly as primates are mammals. They didn't extinct all. But those creatures you posted never belong to the dinosaurs. :P They were really impressive though.
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Not just birds either.
Evolution splits and further splits down into various sub genuses.
The DUP are dinosaurs too.
 
PinkFinal said:
I just can't get my head around hundreds of millions of years since they were around

But the universe has all the time in the world and its own laws
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The universe has a lot of time - but perhaps not infinitely so.

Over time, galaxies recede due to expansion. After a while, we collie with Andromeda, and then after a great time more, the resulting Andromeda-Milky Way conglomerate is the only galaxy visible from earth. As time marches on, more and more suns die out having expended their fuel. And eons later more and more atoms break down. After a near eternity, atoms no longer exist - the universe is a uniform sea of particles.

Or, the viewpoint above is wrong - and some alternative future exists.
 
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