Last week while browsing the NationalGeographic.com boards, I noticed one comment that really stuck out. The comment really stuck because of what the person had said. I want to say right away, that I am not attacking the person who left it. I'm giving just my opinion. It is the belief of the poster, that dinosaurs and humans walked on the Earth at the same time. I don't have any proof that, humans and dinosaurs did or did not walk on the Earth at the same time. Based on scientific evidence, human or humanoid fossils have not been found in the same layers as dinosaurs. My spiritual side doesn't see any proof of an Earth shared by humans and dinosaurs. You don't look at cave paintings and see drawings of triceratops. The concept of humans sharing our world with living dinosaurs is pure fiction.
You see it on television and on the big screen. If you watch the Flintstones, it makes one believe that humans might have lived peacefully with dinosaurs. It's very doubtful, that such an existence would have been possible. Dinosaurs would have preyed on humans. Knowing human nature, we might have even hunted dinosaurs. You will never find the remains of dinosaurs feeding on humans or vice versa. I believe that, we would competed with both carnivores and herbivores. Once again, there isn't proof of it. Hollywood has shaped this myth. Dinosaurs have shaped their own myths.
Tales of dragons and giants may in my opinion sprung from fossilized dino bones. Finding such a huge bone say from an apatosaurus could foster such a tale. Tales of such creatures were created by humans who lived, long, long ago. Like any good story, they've been passed down from generation to generation.
So in my opinion did dinosaurs and humans exist together on the Earth? No, they didn't. It would have been impossible. The thunder lizards just didn't mix with people. Okay, I'll shut up now.


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Dinosaurs and people coexist only in books, movies and cartoons. The last dinosaurs - other than birds - died out dramatically about 65 million years ago, while the fossils of our earliest human ancestors are only about 6 million years old.