If dinosaurs had never become extinct then our entire urban system would be designed in a very different way.
Towns would have huge moats around them - or huge empty moats around them - essentially giant pits with bridges over them.
The moats would be surrounded by mine fields to ensure the dinosaurs keep away from the pits.
And the bridges would be guarded with watchtowers with LARGE GUNS - artillery the likes of which you rarely see outside towns in this day and age.
I am pretty sure the internet would never have been developed, and - come to that most of the inter-connectivity we take for granted wouldn’t exist either. No mobile phone network, no world wide phone network, no world wide television network.
I think cities would be a lot safer from animal attacks than rural areas. Crews would be in constant danger from a stray predator attack, and that each crew would need some sort of security detail, much like construction crews have in more dangerous parts of the world.
Travel between the cities — that would be hard but would mostly be done the same way. Fast, and heavily armed. They wouldn’t attempt to kill the dinosaurs - just to drive them off and deter them from attacking.
The sides of the roads would be mined to prevent the dinosaurs from getting too close and there would be a limited number of roads.
Countries would have special forces specializing in containing the Dinosaurs intruding human living areas.
There would be at least be a few tragedies related to the dinosaurs. Like in poorer countries where people get killed frequently because of less security.
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We would still have technology, it would be far more durable though.
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+1 yIf they never died out, we'd never exist. Consider this: mammals had the chance to go through an evolutionary boom because their competition was taken out. Suddenly, once the land was fertile again, mammals found themselves with an abundance of food and a lack of a dominant species to quell their numbers and keep them in hiding.
If things didn't go as they did, I'd think some future relative of raptors would be the dominant intelligence (maybe not as we are, or maybe even more). And as raptors hunted small creatures, mammals are royally screwed.
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Thats likely true, though there is the posibility that mammals would evolve those branches regardless, do to larger dinosaur species not being in all parts of the globe. The idea could just as easily involve only localized extinctions of non avian dinosaurs, rather than a global one.
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+1 y1. Birds are dinosaurs, so not all dinosaurs are extinct.
2. Anything that could kill us from the mesozoic thats larger or otherwise more dangerous than modern predators or agressive herbivores, would not be as big of a problem as people think. People tend to showcase dinosaurs as bulletproof building smashing monsters.
Yet in real life, an Elephant gun could kill a Tyrannosaurus (which is not much taller than an elephant), and a cement wall could stop it's entry no problem, small windows or not. And these are animals, not mindless killing machines, many species would end up as pets, livestock, etc. You would just as easily get gored by a Cow or Elephant as you would a Triceratops, and yet most farms have cows, and elephants are often personal caravans/pets. Also modern hippos and crocodiles can bite you in half, and any animal half your size is probably strong enough to kill you.
Yet humanity is doing just fine in spite of all that.30 Reply
+1 yI watched this interesting video where a palaeontologist reviewed dinosaurs in movies. One had an Allosaurus & Trex together. The guy said there was more time passed between the two dinosaurs then there was between Trex & man.
Its amazing how long dinosaurs were on earth for it to end so abruptly.
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Goes to show how changes to the environment can wreak such devastation
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@Sirenboobzilla giant rocks from space tend to do that 😑
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I'm quite aware
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Dinosaurs aren't extinct. Birds are from the dinosaurs.
But let's go with it. They'd have millions of years of evolutionary head start. We'd be pets or sport for them and not in the top spot we currently inhabit. Think planet of the apes but it's dinos ruling the planet.21 Reply- +1 y
Hard to say if hominids would even be a thing in that scenario
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+1 yHumans and dinosaurs never co-existed, so this is a moot point. Didn't happen in the Earth's timeline. There are a few animals that "qualify" as living dinosaurs: crocodiles, alligators, sharks: really ancient fish and reptiles. They're dangerous, but there's little need to be where THEY are unless you're trapping them for food.
One has to be very careful then. That's the gist of it!
20 Reply 469 opinions shared on Other topic. Here is the deal: there isn't a critter on this planet that human beings haven't figured out how to kill.
Millenia before firearms were even imagined, men were killing woolly mammoths and sabertoothed tigers with nothing but sharp sticks. I'm sure that the tigers ran up a good kill ratio ("The tigers dragged away Fred last night and ate him") but in the end, the cats are gone, and we are still here.
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m +1 yThe good Christians would just turn them into livestock, of course! 🤔🤥😬
https://theconversation.com/amp/at-the-evangelical-creation-museum-dinosaurs-lived-alongside-humans-and-the-world-is-6-000-years-old-14214510 Reply If we were still prehistoric, we'd need clovis spears and teamwork to protect against Theropod predators such as Allosaurus and Tyranosaurs. Most Dinosaurs were actually smaller than a m modern sheep though. I would imagine we could domesticate the smaller species.
10 Reply3.2K opinions shared on Other topic. Well, I'll be even more glad that I paid attention to my favorite gun store stocks so I was able to get this for an awesome deal.
45-70 Government Strong Action is more than powerful enough to humanely put down any living creature that's ever walked this planet😎
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+1 yI’m for tickling them. No mercy until belly up.
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@msputiton lol Armed and dangerous 🪶
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@dustybiker Yeah... you'd be the first to get eaten.
"Death by trying to tickle a T-Rex."
Definitely the coolest way to go, though 😂 - +1 y
@sirderpsalot123 You grossly underestimate my dinosaur-whispering-skills, sir. I am offended.
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@dustybiker I'm just the worst, huh? lmao
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@sirderpsalot123 *tapping foot with a heard of tamed T-Rex’s behind me* lmao
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@dustybiker An army of ticklish T-Rex's... how intimidating 🙄
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@sirderpsalot123 Yeah, sure. Big man. Now my crowd is tame.
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@dustybiker 🤣🤣 Goodbye.
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+1 yOnce the gun was invented many of today's predators went locally extinct. I think the same would happen with dinosaurs. Otherwise I think we'd survive by building barriers, avoiding certain areas and just running away real fast.
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+1 yWouldn't have to worry, mankind would of killed them all by now or at least hunted them down to levels like the Bison in the USA.
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+1 yIsn’t it possible that at some point they’re be wary of attacking humans? Like wolves? I also think only small ones could exist if they didn’t go extinct. Not including lower oxygen and all that ecological stuff, I think the biggest dinosaurs that could still exist are maybe Ceratopsians and Abelisaurus. Plastic and I think deforestation are still huge problems. The dinosaur I can imagine seeing in person are small Dromaosauruians and Archaeopteryx
10 Reply According to your question, the first thing that popped in my head is living like the Movie Flintstones 1994 (lol) and the Second is like the Movie Jurassic World but on a serious note we would have to live like in the Movie Jurassic World but with more Safety measures around the whole world.
00 Reply12.8K opinions shared on Other topic. one of these would do it.

Take that, Dino. 30 Reply- 922 opinions shared on Other topic.
+1 yTake them to Jurassic Park... lol
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I need this.
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There's 6 movies now on why that's a bad idea
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@Sirenboobzilla LMAO
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@JohnK123 Yes, yes we do
@Sirenboobzilla those are monster movies, real animals are not super powered bulletproof monsters that can smash concrete, open doors, kill entire parks for sport, and cloak themselves from infrared and color vision.
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Also most of the animals in the jurassic movies are oversized (except the dilophosaurus, for some reason they made it smaller than the real animal)
Anonymous(36-45)+1 ythe truth is probably more like @Aerissa_Jade said, and we would have hunted them to near extinction like we did with buffalo 😭 but I like to agree with @Kreneman here and say it would be like the Flintstones. I would be a big fan of domesticated dinosaurs
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+1 ySo All dinosaurs died were Destroyed by whatever it is Killed then everything dies the Earth was empty with no Life then all of a sudden life just happened again with nobody to Fuck each other to Create life And somehow we exist when life can’t Exist without someone fucking another.
Seems like a bunch of Bullshit to me00 ReplyI think they would be extinct now if they weren’t killed off by whatever else killed them. Look at how many animals we have driven to extinction.
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+1 yDinosaurs are not extinct. Every bird you see is descended from dinosaurs. We protect ourselves from birds by installing burd feeders... to keep them happy. We don't need any Tippy Hedron incidents.
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+1 yGuns! A lots of guns 🤣
10 Reply3.1K opinions shared on Other topic. If all of a sudden they now popped up it wouldn't be a issue we could easly clap them if they never went extinct might have been a issue
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+1 yStructurally strong buildings without windows. Day to day travel would be a son of a bitch. You just about have to travel in a tank
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+1 yWe'd have to live in the tree's. Swinging from vine to vine Tarzan style. Eating fruits and pine tree bark. Tree houses in the tallest trees, yes?
I'm just messing with you. We have tanks, don't we?10 Reply6.3K opinions shared on Other topic. They would make them extinct... quickly. That's not hard.
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m +1 ywe would have killed them... just like we did with other things, lol
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+1 yMaybe I'm a pessimist, but I guess most people having to deal with real dinosaurs would make sure to kill them all.
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+1 yI’d want to live high up but i’d be prepared to still have to fight pterodactyls
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Pterodactylus was about the size of a crow or raven. I'd be more worried about quetzalcoatlus, seeing as its as tall as a giraffe.
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@TheSpaceGnome oh so jurassic park lied lmao
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Jurassic park/world had pteranodon, dimorphodon, quetzalcoatlus, dsungaripterus, maaradactylus, and tropeognathus, with only the first 3 appearing in films, and the other 3 being in the story canon games.
Pterodactylus has yet to be featured in the series oddly enough.
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Granted, out of those, they were indeed oversized in the movies.
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@TheSpaceGnome oh shit i thought the bird cage in JP Lost World was pterodactyls 😂
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Also technically its moot since all of those aren't dinosaurs.
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Nope that was just the first 2 i listed, with the third being in jurassic world dominion only. at least on screen anyway.
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The one on the birdcage bridge in jp3 was the male pteranodon (though in reality they didn't have teeth), the ones that the mosasaur ate/picked up the nanny in jurassic world is the female pteranodon, the broad headed ones with teeth and long tails in world were dimorphodon, and the big one that attacked the cargo plane in dominion was quetzalcaotlus.
Oh, I forgot one, the one in the lost world ending is geosternbergia, which, at the time of filming, was classified as another species of pteranodon, but later it was decided it was different enough to be its own species.
773 opinions shared on Other topic. No worries they would have become extinct by us like all other large animals. We would simply kill them for food. Or to remove the threat. at least the land dinosaurs, the water ones might still be around in smaller numbers.
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+1 yI think my country would be fine with it considering our view on guns.
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+1 yBig ass guns.
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+1 yWe’d train them and use them like all other livestock.
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+1 yTake them out with drone strikes. Maybe build a wall.
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And let the dinosaurs government pay for the wall! Genius!!! 😮😂
7.4K opinions shared on Other topic. Thick walls. They're giant lizards, they're not sentient murder monsters.
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+1 yHigh power rifles and electric fences just like Jurassic Park. Something tells me the interviews for local animal control officers would be a little more intense🤣
00 Reply 1K opinions shared on Other topic. Well humans are good at adapting, we would eventually find a way to kill/capture them, it may take loner but we would find a way
10 Reply3.5K opinions shared on Other topic. I don't think it would be an issue
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Interesting.
Is the world flat and man never really landed on the moon as well? ... just wondering? - +1 y
The reality is nobody can prove whether dinosaurs did or didn't actually exist the world is flat or round or someone landed on the moon. At the very least though we as people can be open-minded enough to see arguments that speak both ways and decide for ourselves. To simply believe the popular narrative because that's what you've been told is irrational
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You have not disappointed me... lol
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There have been several complete dinosaurs skeletons found, not exactly a surprise, given how many must have roamed around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_(dinosaur)
Anonymous(25-29)+1 yi feel like we’d have no infrastructure or anything if they did still exist… I don't know what the solution would be
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+1 yJust tease the shit out of them!! Our arms are long enough to reach our genitals!! Theirs aren't!! That's why they were always so pissed off, they can't play with themselves.
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+1 yI think we'd just kill them until they go extinct
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+1 yHumanity would have hunted them to extinction anyway.
10 Reply624 opinions shared on Other topic. I am pretty sure if dinosaurs didn't go extinct, humans would not evolve to the stage we are now in. Disappearing of dinosaurs allowed mammals to grow and fill their position as a dominant group. Before they were in dinosaurs' shadow.
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I find it interesting that during the era if dinosaurs there was no flowering plants. It was all ferns and pine trees. Suddenly flowering plants came around honey bees
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+1 yJust how they keep safe from lions and tigers and bears and dragons.
10 Reply 2.8K opinions shared on Other topic. People would kill them off the way they do anything that threatens them.
00 ReplyIf Dinosaurs weren't Extinct we wouldn't be here.
11 Reply3.2K opinions shared on Other topic. They're just big animals. We'd likely make them go extinct. Hunting, resources, meat.
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+1 yCage match bro💯 I could kick a dinosaurs ass im not scared of some big dumb lizard
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+1 ywe would have to avoid and got tired I guess
00 ReplyIf dinosaurs weren't extinct, humans and most mammals much bigger than a mouse wouldn't exist.
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+1 yDinosaurs weren't carnivorous. They will be in the wild eating planets.
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+1 yLarge bore weapons and a good market for dinosaur meat.
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+1 yRifles, rockets and bombs!
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More likely wildlife preserves.
+1 yFeed them politicians
30 ReplyThey’d tear us apart 😰
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+1 yI m sure humans would have used them for transportation.. also for amusement parks dinosaur rides..
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Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
+1 yLots of bombs.
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+1 yWe'd go DINOSAUR HUNTING
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+1 yI was thinking Dinoburgers
10 Reply16.5K opinions shared on Other topic. Superior firepower.
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+1 ySame way we avoid normal wild life I'd assume
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Anonymous(18-24)+1 ySubterraneous life.
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Anonymous(25-29)+1 yI think that's what guns are for.
10 Reply1.3K opinions shared on Other topic. we would never have evolved
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