Please answer (here) just yes or no. Like it is a poll. For the first 24 hours.
Yes.
(birds)
No.
Maybe.
Flintstones, I mean, no!
Adhering to the OP’s request, and going with the way it’s usually meant (though Kimstu’s answer is the best!)![]()
No.
But IMHO no one asks that question in good faith. It’s always some sort of gotcha, either intellectual (see “birds” again) or some religious nut about to go on some tirade about human footprints and dino prints in the “same” fossilized mud.
So outside places like, oh, here, I avoid anyone asking the sort of question and refuse to answer.
Yeah, no, but yes because it’s not that simple.
As the word “dinosaurs” is usually understood, the answer is no. Arguing that the answer is yes because birds are dinosaurs is a bit of pedantic trickery. It’s like asking if apes live in Antarctica, and saying the correct answer is yes because humans are apes. Haha, gotcha! No you didn’t, you’re just using a word in a technically correct but unusual way that’s intended to be misunderstood.
No.
It’s not just birds though, aren’t crocodiles and alligators dinosaurs too? And Nessie?
No. They’re both Archosaurs, but while crocs are closer to birds than they are to, say, lizards, they’re still part of Pseudosuchia, while dinosaurs and birds are Avemetatarsalia.
Nope, as Alessan said. There are five distinguishing characteristics dinosaurs share. Three of them involve holes in the skull and honestly, I’ve not memorized them. The remaining two are an upright stance, as opposed to sprawling like lizards have, and a hinge ankle that flexes in only one axis.
Eh, I feel that people answer obvious riddles at their own risk. It’s perfectly legit to respond “That’s not a sufficiently well-posed question, because the answer would be different depending on which one of several recognized meanings of ‘dinosaurs’ (or ‘apes’) you’re using. Do you mean ‘non-bird dinosaurs’ (or ‘nonhuman apes’)?”
But if you make a guess at the questioner’s meaning and guess wrong, you can’t complain when you get caught, IMHO. Birds are dinosaurs, and humans are apes, so the answer “Yes” to either question is indeed technically correct. (And we all know what kind of correct that is!
)
Not in any meaningful or useful sense.
Except this question was used in a poll to show how stupid Americans are. “Hurr durr, 41% of Americans think humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time! What a bunch of idiots!” It’s not being asked in good faith nor is it meant as a riddle (in the original poll.)
Without the definition of dinosaur, it is the equivalent of asking “Is a mammal bigger than a piece of wood?”.
Yes
Yes
I’ve often wondered something about people who believe humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, and people who believe the story of Noah’s Ark to be literally true (the Venn diagram of which is probably a near-perfect match overlay). The modern ‘canon’ of the Noah’s Ark story seems to be that dinosaurs were brought onto the ark as well. The ‘Ark Experience’ museum in Kentucky claims as much, anyway. But wouldn’t the idea that the dinos didn’t make it onto the ark be the perfect cover story for ‘human-dino coexistence / Noah’s Ark / young Earth’ believers to explain away the dino extinction? It’s not as if the bible says anything about letting dinos on-- nobody knew that they even ever existed back then.
I mean, why not just claim Noah forgot the dinos-- like he missed the unicorn in that Irish Rovers song? Seems like he was a bit of a drunk, after all. Or maybe he thought “ain’t no way I’m bringing dinos like a T. Rex pair onto my ark-- I’m going to have enough trouble feeding the lions, tigers and bears, as it is! Not to mention, if they get loose, we’ll be in big trouble”.
I see the OP’s time mandate was honored for a grand total of one hour. ![]()
And yes, I’ve seen Dino living with his Flintstone family man times, so you can’t fool me.
No.
(there were about 65 million years between the two)