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What Was the Purpose of Dinosaurs? – Science Is True and the Church Is Too
July 30, 2021 - In the 5th day of creation we read that the gods prepared the earth to bring forth the fowls of the air (Abraham 4:20-22). I once heard dinosaurs as a group called “stem birds”—meaning that as birds evolved, other stems or branches shot off from that line to become things like triceratops and stegosaurus and brontosaurus, and all the other types of lovable non-avian dinosaurs.
clade of archosaurian reptiles (Archosauria)
Wikipedia
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Dinosaur - Wikipedia
5 days ago - The stegosaurians appear to have gone extinct at some point in the late Early Cretaceous or early Late Cretaceous. A major change in the Early Cretaceous, which would be amplified in the Late Cretaceous, was the evolution of flowering plants. At the same time, several groups of dinosaurian herbivores evolved more sophisticated ways to orally process food.
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How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs - YouTube
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How Did Dinosaurs Actually Go Extinct? - YouTube
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WHY DID THE DINOSAURS BECOME EXTINCT? | Learn with Sarah - YouTube
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What Exactly Killed The Dinosaurs? | Earth | BBC Earth Science ...
American Museum of Natural History
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Dinosaur Facts | American Museum of Natural History
The sharp points pierced the meat, and the serrations helped slice it by catching and tearing muscle fibers. Meat eaters didn’t chop or grind their food; they swallowed chunks whole. Plant-eating dinosaurs had teeth of various shapes designed for their particular diets.
Natural History Museum
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How an asteroid ended the age of the dinosaurs | Natural History Museum
Around 75% of Earth’s animals, including dinosaurs, suddenly died out at the same point in time.
Answers in Genesis
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Dinosaurs | Answers in Genesis
God created dinosaurs on day six of creation, approximately 6,000 years ago. These fascinating creatures can now serve as “missionary lizards” for the gospel.
National Geographic
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Why did the dinosaurs go extinct?
Abundant fossil bones, teeth, trackways, and other hard evidence have revealed that Earth was the domain of the dinosaurs for at least 230 million years. But so far, not a single trace of dinosaur remains has been found in rocks younger than about 66 million years. At that point, as the Cretaceous period yielded to the Paleogene, it seems that all nonavian dinosaurs suddenly ceased to exist.
Published May 4, 2021
Quora
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Why were there dinosaurs in our world? What is the purpose of them living on earth millions of years ago? - Quora
Answer (1 of 11): I’m an avocational Paleontologist not a philosopher but I’m a human with my own religious beliefs and my own philosophies as well. So I guess I am. :) A fossil bone falls from a cliff, makes a crack in the stone below enough enough to expose some soil beneath.
Dinosaur World Live
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TOP REASONS WHY DINOSAURS BECAME EXTINCT
The theory is that over tens of thousands of years, the dust and ash that entered the atmosphere slowly became so thick that it blocked the sunlight and caused plants to die. This in turn caused the plant-eating dinosaurs to die out, and then caused the meat-eaters that hunted them to starve.
Wikipedia
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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event - Wikipedia
5 days ago - It is possible that small dinosaurs (other than birds) did survive, but they would have been deprived of food, as herbivorous dinosaurs would have found plant material scarce and carnivores would have quickly found prey in short supply.
Reddit
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r/StardewValley on Reddit: What is the purpose of dinosaurs?
April 5, 2022 -
I recently got my first dinosaur, but I don't understand why you would want to keep them. They make less money than chickens, as chickens can make 2,793g a week, and dinosaurs can only make 1,120g a week.
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Convenience. Dinosaurs only produce one pricey egg a week. Chickens are more of a time sink. Do you really need a financial inentive for a pet dinosaur? I wouldn't convert all your coop space to dinosaur space from a financial perspective, but being able to have a dinosaur wandering around my farm is objectively awesome
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They're cute. And people like variations. You'd probably make more money replacing the coops with ancient fruit wineries or pig barns anyway.
Britannica
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What Happened to the Dinosaurs? | Britannica
June 13, 2025 - One day 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of a mountain struck near the Yucatán Peninsula with an explosive force equivalent to 100 trillion tons of TNT. In that cataclysmic instant, the 165-million-year reign of the dinosaurs came to an end.
Reddit
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r/Dinosaurs on Reddit: How did all the dinosaurs die? Why didn’t a good amount stay alive just as other animals did?
November 11, 2023 - Without large plants, the large herbivorous dinosaurs starved, and without their prey, large carnivorous dinosaurs soon followed. This didn’t just apply to dinosaurs, almost every animal over 25 pounds in weight was wiped out. The extinction destroyed 75% of all plant and animal species by causing a total collapse of the
Reddit
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r/Paleontology on Reddit: Why did dinosaurs (other than birds) go extinct but reptiles and mammals didn't?
January 9, 2024 -
I mean mammals were also warm-blooded like most dinosaurs, so they both should've had trouble finding enough food after the meteor hit the earth, right?
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Most mammals and reptiles DID go extinct. Only a few remained, and the fact is that while we can surmise why some groups made it and some didn't, we don't really know. Except in one case: the nautiloids. During the Mesozoic, the main cephalopod were ammonites. They were widespread and diverse. Nautiloids were far less common, much as they are today. But despite the ammonites being so successful, they didn't make it. It wasn't a size thing - they were all over the place in size. It wasn't habitat - neither were deep water. We think it had to do with their breeding. Ammonites laid thousands of little tiny eggs. Nautiluses lay a few large grape-sized eggs. Most paleontologists today believe that it wasn't that the meteor killed ammonites and let nautiluses survive - they think that the meteor killed almost EVERYTHING in the sea. Then a few months later the ammonite eggs hatched and the babies died, because the aftereffects of the shock were still going on. Some of the nautilus eggs took over a year to hatch, and by that time the worst of the disaster was over, so they survived.
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Basically only those species survived that could live through the impact and its immediate aftermath, for instance because they were small and lived in burrows, and that could live through the utter devastation of the Earth’s ecosystems longer term, for instance because they were scavengers, or able to forage over a very wide area, or could go for a long time without food. Many, many mammal and reptile species went extinct as well, as did most marine animals and a large number of plants. Among dinosaurs, only birds had the traits that enabled them to survive longer term. Mammals were generally small omnivores, able to subsist on nuts and seeds, which gave them an advantage. Surviving reptiles were generally able to subsist on carrion and/or go without food for extended periods of time. Non-avian dinosaurs were just too big or too dependent on the rest of the ecosystem to get by.
Reddit
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r/AskBiology on Reddit: Why did dinosaurs evolve before humans?
May 12, 2024 - Because evolutionary pressures of the environment yielded over billions of years that tree at that time. Once the dinosaurs died out (mostly.....we have birds and reptiles now) mammals were given more room to explore other niches in the environment and this led to greater diversity in mammals and eventually humans.
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r/Dinosaurs on Reddit: At what point did the existence of Dinosaurs become common knowledge?
June 20, 2024 -
I was going to post this on r/Paleontology but they seem a little elitist for this question.
I once found this SCP where a town in the old American west gets transported back to the Cretaceous period. In it the residents seem rather dumb struck by the presence of dinosaurs. Referring to them as "Demons".
This rather shocked me. As I thought by this time dinosaurs were common knowledge. Only a few years before the events of that story, Jules Verne wrote a book that included archaic animals (Although I don't know if there were any dinosaurs). So I figured there was widespread knowledge of the prehistoric world at that point.
So this all gets me thinking. At what point did Dinosaurs become common knowledge? If I somehow went back in time and asked a bunch of people if they knew what a dinosaur was. When would they stop saying "Of course I do" and start saying "Get out of my bath"? Was it when Richard Owens coined the term? Or was it in the decades that followed? Keep in mind I'm asking when they became widely known to the public. Not in academia.
Also, bonus questions while I'm here. Since there is apparently a dinosaur subreddit. Are you exclusively focused on dinosaurs? Or are you allowed to talk about Pterosaurs and Plesiosaurs as well? I know cladistically they're not Dinosaurs. But they are still usually associated with them. And could I just unironically post a picture of an Ostrich here and no one would bat an eye? Or do you arbitrarily exclude them?
edit-I just found out that Charles Dickens wrote a book called Bleak House. Which included passing mention of a Therapod Dinosaur. So combined that with Jules Verne. It dose seem that the erudite public was fairly well versed in the existence of pre historic animals. So maybe the people in the as forementioned town preferred penny dreadfuls over Verne and Dickens.
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One good way to tell that is by their presence in popular media. At what point did they become rather common in literature or cinema, for instance. I would say the publications of Doyle's Lost World and the first stop motion movies to include dinosaurs is a pretty solid starting point, so 1910s-1920s.
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"Dinosaur" was first coined in 1842 by Owens, but they didn't really become popularly studied until the so called "Bone Wars" of 1877-92. Considering in that SCP, the town vanished in 1866, it's doubtful that many in that town were schooled enough to know about or study dinosaurs.
PubMed Central
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Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? Could cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) deficiency be the answer? - PMC
This raises the possibility that cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) deficiency of developing embryos in dinosaur eggs could have caused their death before hatching, thus extinguishing the entire family of dinosaurs through failure to reproduce.
Reasons to Believe
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Why Did God Create Dinosaurs and Then Destroy Them? - Reasons to Believe
October 22, 2021 - Question of the week: If God is merciful, then why did he create dinosaurs and then destroy them? My answer: God subjected the entire universe to a pervasive law of decay or thermodynamics (Romans 8:20–22) as a means to efficiently eradicate evil and suffering (see Why the Universe Is the Way It Is1 for details […]
Institute for Creation Research
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Dinosaurs According to Their Creator | The Institute for Creation Research
In doing so, He not only fulfilled His promise that they would begin to die (Genesis 2:17, “dying, thou shalt die”), but evidently He actually changed the genetic makeup of many “kinds” so that all their descendants would forever be different. He changed Eve’s body structure (3:16), the plants (v. 18), and animals, as well (v. 14). Perhaps at this time some dinosaurs and other animals acquired or began to acquire a taste for meat, as well as body parts designed for aggression or protection.
Imperial College London
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The dinosaurs: From dominance to doom
The dinosaurs: From dominance to doom - They roamed our planet over 66 million years ago, yet dinosaurs continue to teach us new things about life on Earth.
ThoughtCo
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The Creationist Views on Dinosaurs Give Earth a New Timeline
May 2, 2025 - Creationists claim the Biblical flood wiped out dinosaurs, but scientists credit an asteroid impact for their extinction. One of the most unrewarding things a scientist or science writer can attempt to do is rebut the arguments of creationists and fundamentalists. This is not because it's difficult to demolish the creationist point ...