Dinosaurs, early relatives coexisted

sfgate.com ^ | Friday, July 20, 2007 | David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

UC Berkeley scientists, digging deep into a remote New Mexico hillside, have discovered a trove of fossil bones that they say is evidence that dinosaurs and their early relatives lived side by side for tens of millions of years before the relatives slowly died off and left the dinosaurs to dominate the ancient world.

Until now many scientists had thought that dinosaur "precursors" -- perhaps their ancestors -- disappeared suddenly long before the dinosaurs themselves rose to prominence, but the bones dug up by Berkeley paleontologists show evidence of a different story.

The discovery of a wide variety of creatures all mingled together in layer upon layer of rocks dating from Earth's late Triassic period between 235 million and 200 million years ago, they say, shows that the strange relatives of the dinosaurs remained on the scene while the dinosaurs evolved into truly dominant creatures during the Jurassic period, between 120 million and 200 million years ago.

[Rodney King]

Another bogus story designed to test our faith. The earth is only 9,000 years old.

[Red Badger]

..shows that ... relatives of the dinosaurs remained on the scene while the dinosaurs evolved into truly dominant creatures...

No it doesn't......

[SIDENET]

Dinosaurs, early relatives coexisted

Yeah, but I bet they fought at Thanksgiving.

[stm]

UC Berkeley scientists, digging deep into a remote New Mexico hillside, have discovered a trove of fossil bones that they say is evidence that dinosaurs apes and their early relatives democrats lived side by side for tens of millions of years before the relatives apes slowly died off evolved and left the dinosaurs democrats to dominate stink up the ancient world.

[Greg F]

Wonder if they’ll find the “missing link” showing the evolution from the earlier precursers to the dinasours.

They’ve only been looking for 150 years while trying to claim Darwin is “proven science.”

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

"Those guys are surely on their way to being dinosaurs," he said of the mysterious dinosaur precursors. [underlining added]

Precursors? Can't they just be what they are? With that line of reasoning, I wonder what humans are on their way to becoming? We're obviously in a transitional stage, on our way to becoming - what?

[Resolute Conservative]

Amen. AnswersinGenesis.com

[Red Badger]

...on our way to becoming - what?

Ignominious.....

[dmz]

If science news tests your faith, you must not have much in the first place.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

9,000 years old, really... do you believe that?

[Diogenesis]

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[ElectricStrawberry]

Pay no attention to the last true ice age that ended 11,000 odd years ago....faith trumps all.

[Nathan Zachary]

"he discovery of a wide variety of creatures all mingled together in layer upon layer of rocks dating from Earth's late Triassic period between 235 million and 200 million years ago, they say,"

Or, it is just another jumbled pile of Human and chicken bones mashed together by some long ago catastrophic event (A mud slide 200 years ago)

[balch3]

I bet they’ve already found human bones and dinosaur bones together, but covered it up.

[Riodacat]

Proof positive that Man & Dinosaurs lived together 8K years ago:

[dmz]

I bet they’ve already found human bones and dinosaur bones together, but covered it up.
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A conspiracy theory worthy of, uh, ridicule.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

With that line of reasoning, I wonder what humans are on their way to becoming? We're obviously in a transitional stage, on our way to becoming - what?

Something determined mostly by us. Though evolution brought us to where we are, our own technology (specifically, biotech and nanotech) and our own choices will have far more to do with what we become.

And there is no "transitional stage" for any species - evolution isn't a process of refinement or improvement, simply adaptation based on inherited traits and mutations.

[LtKerst]

The bones were all together because they all drown together in God’s flood, and then all settled in the cave together..as the water receeded ...easy.

[DuncanWaring]

The earth is only 9,000 years old.

Where'd you come up with "9,000 years"?