Post by Wood~Ant on Mar 13, 2009 8:55:54 GMT
I got to thinking about the length of time dinosaurs had been on our planet, which was roughly in the region of 150 million years. Then for reasons best known only to themselves, they all became extinct about 65 million years ago.
When they ruled the Earth, there was little or no chance for apes to evolve into any higher species such as homo sapiens; and most mammals were very small and probably in short supply with hungry dinosaurs like velociraptors roaming around. While a small mammal could hide away, larger ones like us could not. Humans would have made a tasty snack for nearly all of the carnivores. So why are we around now and had not evolved back in those times? This now leads me onto another question
What if dinosaurs had not died out, would they have evolved into a higher form of life? They had 150 million years to do this, but while many new species came and went, they never achieved what humans have done.
Consider this. We have advanced in leaps and bounds over the past 100 or 1,000 years. We have created lovely music, built great buildings and works of art, made TV sets and mobile phones, and have gone out into space. In 150 million years, not one dinosaur species ever picked up a tool or left its mark as a cave painting; but still we find fossil evidence to prove they existed.
The only thing they didn't do was to screw up the planet, which sadly mankind is doing right now and needs to find ways of being kinder to our environment. I wonder if the dinosaurs would still be the same if they were around today, or would they have learned to use tools and build things, or be able to compose music or paint a picture?
So why did we evolve and advance when dinosaurs didn't?
The answer remains a mystery in many ways, but from a simple ape like creature to modern day man, we have done so much in only 2 million years compared to the dinosaurs; and what will we be doing if we're still around in say 10 million years from today I wonder? Just imagine what miracles of achievement we may have by then, when you think about what we were like when we lived in caves. Makes you think doesn't it
When they ruled the Earth, there was little or no chance for apes to evolve into any higher species such as homo sapiens; and most mammals were very small and probably in short supply with hungry dinosaurs like velociraptors roaming around. While a small mammal could hide away, larger ones like us could not. Humans would have made a tasty snack for nearly all of the carnivores. So why are we around now and had not evolved back in those times? This now leads me onto another question
What if dinosaurs had not died out, would they have evolved into a higher form of life? They had 150 million years to do this, but while many new species came and went, they never achieved what humans have done.
Consider this. We have advanced in leaps and bounds over the past 100 or 1,000 years. We have created lovely music, built great buildings and works of art, made TV sets and mobile phones, and have gone out into space. In 150 million years, not one dinosaur species ever picked up a tool or left its mark as a cave painting; but still we find fossil evidence to prove they existed.
The only thing they didn't do was to screw up the planet, which sadly mankind is doing right now and needs to find ways of being kinder to our environment. I wonder if the dinosaurs would still be the same if they were around today, or would they have learned to use tools and build things, or be able to compose music or paint a picture?
So why did we evolve and advance when dinosaurs didn't?
The answer remains a mystery in many ways, but from a simple ape like creature to modern day man, we have done so much in only 2 million years compared to the dinosaurs; and what will we be doing if we're still around in say 10 million years from today I wonder? Just imagine what miracles of achievement we may have by then, when you think about what we were like when we lived in caves. Makes you think doesn't it
