125
votes
Did hominids and non-avian dinosaurs ever coexist?
No.
Non-avian dinosaurs were extinct about 65 million years ago, as the most recent dinosaur bone was directly dated as being 64.8 ± 0.9 Ma old.
The second dinosaur bone sample from Paleocene ...
- 78.6k
66
votes
Accepted
Is the discovery of tuff amongst dinosaur fossils in Utah incompatible with scientific consensus about dating of the fossils?
Has tuff found amongst the deposits at the Dinosaur National Monument?
Yes. The most famous section of the rocks in Morrison Formation in Dinosaur National Monument, the Brushy Basin Member, is chock ...
- 14.5k
45
votes
Accepted
Were Tyrannosaurus Rex herbivores?
No.
Scavenger, Predator, or Herbivore?
There was some scientific debate about whether the T. rex was a predator or a scavenger, but there is absolutely no debate that it might have been a herbivore. ...
tim♦
- 51.8k
27
votes
Accepted
Have coelacanth fossils younger than 65 million years been found?
According to a Nature article from 1998 this is true (or at least, was in 1998).
Coelacanths were known for decades, but only as fossils. They appeared in the fossil record around 370 million years ...
- 3,044
21
votes
Did hominids and non-avian dinosaurs ever coexist?
There is a simple factual response based on the fossil record, "No. Dinosaurs and people did not coexist" but this does not really answer the question "did humans draw dinosaurs?" -- with the implicit ...
- 1,513
12
votes
Accepted
Have paleontologists systematically ignored dinosaur DNA that does not match the evolutionary model?
The short answer: No
The long answer: Also No
Here is why this does not hold water:
Until recently we were not able to extract soft tissues recently as in last 10 years. This is to the best of my ...
- 362
4
votes
Is the hominid skull discovered in Petralona 700,000 years old?
According to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History the skull is "Between 350,000 and 150,000 years" old
Some further notes on the morphology and dating of the Petralona hominid Journal of Human ...
- 105k
3
votes
Did hominids and non-avian dinosaurs ever coexist?
Hominidae Temporal range: Miocene–present, 17 – 0 Mya
Dinosaur
Temporal range: Late Triassic–Present, 233.23 – 0 Mya
all non-avian dinosaurs, estimated to have been 628-1078 species, as well as many ...
- 390
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible