Evolution: Will the Dinosaur Paradigm Be Next to Fall?

CEH ^ | 09/30/2015

[Resolute Conservative]

“It creates this natural question. How did they survive up here?”

Maybe because it used to be warm in what is now Alaska, global warming aside of course.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Last I heard dinosaurs are basically birds.

Birds are hot blooded.

[arthurus]

I thought the peripatetic continents explained all that.

[cripplecreek]

That and the idea of warm blooded dinosaurs has been accepted theory for at least 3 decades.

Plenty of birds around my place in the winter.

[camle]

got lost on a road trip? should have taken that left turn at albequerque

[DungeonMaster]

Young Earth.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Axis tilt? Millions of years to move, maybe the poles were at a different location. Certainly there must be someone who was around at that time to tell us about it. :>)

[GingisK]

I have always thought that the "fossil fuel" theory was ridiculous. All of that material so deep in the ground could not be dinosaur goo. The abiotic theories make much more sense.

Biotic or Abiotic?

[Don Corleone]

How did they survive up here?”

Electric Blankets? Wife sharing? Both!

[spokeshave]

They all excited about the big bones they found....but need to take a close look at the plant fragments also...seeds..etc...no doubt will show warm weather plants.

[lavaroise]

I think adaptation and intelligence are matters of semantics.

[John S Mosby]

Indeed— the area which is Alaska today was once equatorial during the time of an equator at a different position. These “scientists” must be as dumb as a sack of rocks.

The Earth’s magnetic poles and axis was different as well. What octomaroons.

[katana]

And vice versa, Birds are basically Dinosaurs. Hollow boned, warm blooded, and covered in insulating feathers. If the planet was about ten degrees warmer with CO2 levels several times higher than now (in that order, by the way, Mr. Gore) they could still be growing to gargantuan size.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Did somebody say hot blooded???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reDDyuEbkLM

[katana]

It is hard to attribute those methane lakes on Titan and the hydrocarbon rich atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn on dinosaur remains.

[JimSEA]

If I read the article on the color of fossil animals correctly, the shape of melanin fossils correlates with the shapes found in living animals. This covers the colors from black to brown to white or light red. So you are still dealing with fossil remains.

[Boogieman]

Umm, probably the same way tropical plants survived at northern latitudes way back when?????

Friggin idiot pop sci writers.

[Yashcheritsiy]

It is hard to attribute those methane lakes on Titan and the hydrocarbon rich atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn on dinosaur remains.

Don't worry, we'll find a way.

/evolutionist

[Heartlander]

FYI: Discovery Raises New Doubts About Dinosaur-bird Links:

"Frankly, there's a lot of museum politics involved in this, a lot of careers committed to a particular point of view even if new scientific evidence raises questions," Ruben said. In some museum displays, he said, the birds-descended-from-dinosaurs evolutionary theory has been portrayed as a largely accepted fact, with an asterisk pointing out in small type that "some scientists disagree."