this pretty much sums up what would happen
Wrong! If dinosaurs were still alive Puerto Rico would have become a state and there would be 51 Stars on the flag.
I would consider that the most likely outcome. In fact, what would prohibit multiple raptor-descended bipedal sapients from evolving? We don't know why H.sap's relatives died out, & IIRC, there were once over a dozen "families"; who's to say there couldn't be multiple "dino-men"? (This does preclude Godzilla; probably *King Kong eats Tokyo...)
- With all that evolutionary time available, the dinosaurs might have evolved a human analogue, they weren't genetic johnny-one-notes.
One word: pterosaur.Just a note, dinos couldn't fly.
Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs and pterosaurs (and crocodilians and other crurotarsans) are all archosaurs, but they're not the same thing.One word: pterosaur.Just a note, dinos couldn't fly.
The phorusrhacids didn't die out because they were defeated by the Super Awesome Mammals Of Default Superiority, they died out because climate changes eradicated the mammalian prey species that were their bread and butter.
Also, the phorusrhacids inhabited South America, which was separated from North America by a strait (some species migrated north once the Americas became connected). Saying that the phorusrhacids "dominated the world" is like saying lions dominate the world because they're a top predator in parts of Africa.
*goes back to foaming in rage at the paleontology fail that permeats this thread*