# Advanced dinosaur civilization **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 9, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-dinosaur-civilization/965923 "2022-06-09T16:22:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 95
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-dinosaur-civilization/965923/95 "2022-06-10T13:29:40Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > This thread is about the places and times we haven’t looked. There’s not really any such place. We’ve looked in Antarctica, we’ve looked in Greenland, and all parts in between. If there were signs of tool-using intelligent dinosaurs equivalent to even _H. ergaster_, we’d have found them. > [@snowthx](#): > > Or maybe evidence of a primitive, isolated dino culture that existed briefly then ended for some reason is buried under the Himalayas, or has been subducted by plate tectonics, or is deep undersea. Possible? Yes. No. See [this earlier thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-likely-is-it-that-there-are-undiscovered-long-lost-ancient-buildings-in-the-world/965473/43) on ancient civilizations for a discussion of why subduction isn’t the gotcha laymen seem to think. And do you think the geology of the Himalayas isn’t well-studied? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-dinosaur-civilization/965923)._