Dinosaurs for Hire

64,999,999 years ago, a big-ass asteroid skips off the top of the atmosphere & knocks Venus into the corner pocket. The dinosaurs survive.

6 million years later (or so...), where are they? (The first person to suggest a United States or an amphibious attack by a marine animal will be eaten.:D)
 

mowque

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assuming they make it as the dominant form of life. I doubt mammals will assume their own dominance but i think they will carve out a large niche. Birds will likely evolve mostly the same?
 

boredatwork

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Eventually continental reconfiguration would lead to an iceage, assuming that mass vulcanism (deccan traps, yosemite, etc), disease, or something else didn't kill them off first.

Long story short - there are so many possible ways for the dinos to have kicked it in the last 65 milion odd years, that it seems astonishingly unlikely (pace West of Eden and the rest of that series) that dinos (a la Jurassic park) or anything reasonably similar would be around at this point.
 
Long story short - there are so many possible ways for the dinos to have kicked it in the last 65 milion odd years, that it seems astonishingly unlikely (pace West of Eden and the rest of that series) that dinos (a la Jurassic park) or anything reasonably similar would be around at this point.

Well, they (or rather, some kind of Giant Lizard things) did survive two hundred million odd years, with presumably huge envioremental changes in the interin. Millions of species would go extinct, of course, but others would arise.


And what do you have against poor Operation Seavelociraptor anyway, pacifichistorian? I'm sure than if it wasnt for bad luck, it would have worked, despite all the forums claims of Alien Space Archaeropterixes. It's just than you are all biased :p
 
Eventually continental reconfiguration would lead to an iceage, assuming that mass vulcanism (deccan traps, yosemite, etc), disease, or something else didn't kill them off first.

Long story short - there are so many possible ways for the dinos to have kicked it in the last 65 milion odd years, that it seems astonishingly unlikely (pace West of Eden and the rest of that series) that dinos (a la Jurassic park) or anything reasonably similar would be around at this point.

See I am not so sure that dinosaurs would be doomed. Actually it's pretty damn weird that there are no dinosaurs right now. I can buy all the big ones on land and maybe at sea dying off. But there were a lot of little and medium sized dinosaurs that died off also. Seems like some type would have live and then adapted.
 
They did. We call them "reptiles" and "birds"

Yes but there were birds and reptiles before dinosaurs went extinct. Actually reptiles as they are now (well sort of) were around a long time before dinosaurs went extinct. It's just weird that a reptile with a tail it could hold out straight was a death sentence for an animal the size of a chicken.
Sorry it's just one of those weird things that have happened which is why it's used for various sci fi stories. Aliens attacking Earth 65 million years ago. Time travelers shutting down the antigravity units that Martian cancer are using on Earth to make up their army (I am not making that one up).
What I meant is that you could come up with a way for dinosaurs and mammals to be on Earth at the same time. Whether it would be logical is a different question. But there are a lot of not logical stories out there that as long as it in internally consistent that is all that would matter.
 
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And what do you have against poor Operation Seavelociraptor anyway, pacifichistorian? I'm sure than if it wasnt for bad luck, it would have worked, despite all the forums claims of Alien Space Archaeropterixes. It's just than you are all biased :p

Nothing, I just don't want to have that (endless:eek:) debate for 60 million more years.:eek::eek:
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Acyually there's a book seires and mini-seires called Anonymous Rex about dinosaurs disgusing themselves as huamns today.
 
I don't think Venus would have changed its orbit all that much, but that might cause interesting butterflies, due to Venus' subtle gravitational effects on Earth's orbit.
The small dinosaurs went extinct, but not crocodiles and lizards. Why?
 

ninebucks

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I think birds would evolve the same as they were evolving when dinosaurs died out. Weren't they?

Nay. Species evolve to fit their environment. The KT event drastically changed the global climate, species adapted or die. Without that bottleneck nothing would look anything like OTL.
 
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