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*Technically, every bird that is well known.
 
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*''Barney'' - [http://www.hitentertainment.com/barney/flash_mx/sites/player.asp a modern dinosaur.]
 
*''Barney'' - [http://www.hitentertainment.com/barney/flash_mx/sites/player.asp a modern dinosaur.]
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==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 13:53, 18 November 2010

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Dinosaurs are, for the most part, really big freaking creatures[1] that died out about 65 million years ago,[2] unless you believe the Flintstones was a documentary are a creationist, in which case they died a few years ago in the global flood because Noah didn't have room for them in the ark. An eminent Christian, Jack Chick, propounds an alternative theory[3]: some dinosaurs were in Noah's ark, and hence were saved. Unfortunately, in the flood many plants were killed. As a consequence, the atmosphere after the flood was poor in oxygen. Big animals, such as dinosaurs, need lots of oxygen! Luckily, some dinosaurs survived even this - ever heard of dragons?

Another popular idea is that Satan put all the fossils in the ground to trick humans into believing evolution.

Seriously, dinosaur fossils are really neat and give a grand view of the wonder and splendor that our world has seen in the past. They also showcase how cool evolution really is.

Well known dinosaurs

Jesus' famous Gordito impersonation
  • Bully for Brontosaurus is a good book about science-type things.
  • Tyrannosaurus rex - Ooh, scary, and children love them. Giant chickens with sharp teeth, basically. Oh, and no wings.
  • Spinosaurus - Another scary dinosaur, bigger than the T-Rex and is competing with it for the love of children.
  • Triceratops - A three-horned variety, and arguably one of the most iconic after T. rex.
  • Iguanodon - One of the earliest dinosaurs found. It was initially thought to be a creature with a small horn, but better evidence altered this theory to show that it was actually a modified thumb.[4]
  • Stegosaurus - A herbivore with spikes on its tail and plates on its back. It lived in the Jurassic and had the brain the size of a walnut.
  • Brontosaurus - an obsolete name for Apatosaurus, a large quadrupedal herbivore with a long tail and a long neck.
  • Velociraptor - small and fast predator, about the size of a large dog. Sometimes called simply "raptor".
  • Pterosaur - Often called pterodactyls, although not strictly dinosaurs because the term only refers to certain types of land-dwelling reptiles. This was a flying reptile from around the same time.
  • Technically, every bird that is well known.
  • Barney - a modern dinosaur.
  • Fail

See also

A bit of Hadrosaurus bone

Footnotes

  1. Actually most were very small, about the size of a chicken, but they don't count, since children can't tell you their names -- and children are the world's foremost experts on dinosaurs.
  2. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/a.buckley/dino.htm
  3. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1038/1038_01.asp
  4. Science; it works bitches.


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